{"id":228206,"date":"2026-01-02T05:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-not-to-misread-science-fiction"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T11:04:26","slug":"how-not-to-misread-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-not-to-misread-science-fiction","title":{"rendered":"How not to misread science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-not-to-misread-science-fiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says <b>Annalee Newitz<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/annalee-newitz\/\">Annalee Newitz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focusing on the futuristic tech that appears in sci-fi without paying attention to the actual point of the story is a big mistake, says Annalee Newitz By Annalee Newitz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}