{"id":65,"date":"2007-01-25T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-01-25T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T14:25:04","slug":"hard-boiled-wonderland-and-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in an <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=46\">earlier post<\/a>, I&#8217;m looking for an 80&#8217;s sf novel to replace <em>Neuromancer<\/em> in the literature class I teach most summers at Virginia Commonwealth University.  I&#8217;ve just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/features\/murakami\/site.php?id=\">Haruki Murakami<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World<\/em> and liked it almost as much as his <em>Kafka on the Shore, <\/em>which I plan to teach in an urban fantasy class.  <em>Hard-Boiled etc.<\/em> is actually a science fiction novel with a cyberpunk trope, though a decidedly odd one, published in 1985.  Science fiction, IMHO, can use all the odd it can get.  Like Gibson and <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, which I plan to show, it draws heavily upon Raymond Chandler.  Set in a Japan seen through the eyes of a character steeped in American culture, it makes an interesting companion to the cyberpunk west steeped in Japanese culture which is the mainstay of American cyberpunk.  Anyway, it&#8217;s now on the shortlist for the slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in an earlier post, I&#8217;m looking for an 80&#8217;s sf novel to replace Neuromancer in the literature class I teach most summers at Virginia Commonwealth University. I&#8217;ve just read Haruki Murakami&#8216;s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=65\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}