{"id":46,"date":"2006-11-28T12:13:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-07-24T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T21:25:44","slug":"replacement-for-neuromancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Replacement for Neuromancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be teaching a science fiction class again this summer at Virginia Commonwealth University, so once again I&#8217;m revisiting my syllabus.  The course is a chronological dash through sf books and films starting with <em>The Stars My Destination<\/em> and ending with <em>Blind Lake.<\/em>  The students are intelligent college students, usually juniors and seniors from a variety of disciplines looking to fulfill a lit requirement, with varying degrees of familiarity with sf.  I&#8217;ve always used <em>Neuromancer<\/em> as the &#8220;80&#8217;s book&#8221; because I love it, and it&#8217;s the 900-pound gorilla of the decade, but students consistently rate it dead last on the reading list, and I&#8217;ve vowed to replace it.  My personal favorite of the <em>Neuromancer<\/em> trilogy is <em>Count Zero<\/em>, but I doubt they would like it any better.  I&#8217;m considering Tanith Lee&#8217;s <em>Silver Metal Lover<\/em> or Greg Bear&#8217;s <em>Blood Music.<\/em>  Any suggestions out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be teaching a science fiction class again this summer at Virginia Commonwealth University, so once again I&#8217;m revisiting my syllabus. The course is a chronological dash through sf books and films starting with The Stars My Destination &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}