{"id":361,"date":"2017-12-03T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T14:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-12-03T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T14:31:11","slug":"cold-war-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/cold-war-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sci-fi-cold-war.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-363 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sci-fi-cold-war-1024x509.jpg\" alt=\"Cold War Sci-Fi Science\" width=\"525\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sci-fi-cold-war-1024x509.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sci-fi-cold-war-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sci-fi-cold-war-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sci-fi-cold-war.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>I just realized that it\u2019s been four months since I last posted an update on this blog. I\u2019ve been too busy! Anyway, my Cold War book now has a working title \u2013 <em>Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War<\/em>. I\u2019m about two-thirds of the way through writing it \u2013 hopefully it should be out some time around the middle of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Basically the book is a follow-on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3319426044\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=3319426044&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=forteana-20&amp;linkId=a185e2481125d2a22bcd8a2a03157a71\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pseudoscience and Science Fiction<\/a>, which was published last year. While the first book looked at the way SF anticipated and cross-fertilized with various well-known tropes of the pseudoscience industry, the new one will do the same for the real (or in some cases, allegedly \u201creal\u201d) science of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>The picture above gives a quick taster of the kind of thing I mean. The illustration on the left comes from a short story by John W. Campbell called \u201cWhen the Atoms Failed\u201d, from the January 1930 issue of <em>Amazing Stories<\/em>. The picture on the right is an artist\u2019s conception of a space-based electromagnetic railgun, dating from July 1984. This was a real-world proposal for an anti-ballistic\u2013missile defence system, using technology that had already been demonstrated in the laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized that it\u2019s been four months since I last posted an update on this blog. I\u2019ve been too busy! Anyway, my Cold War book now has a working title \u2013 Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War. I\u2019m about two-thirds of the way through writing it \u2013 hopefully it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/cold-war-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold War Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,47,7,33],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cold-war","tag-military-technology","tag-science-fiction","tag-writing-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}