{"id":507,"date":"2018-12-04T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2018-12-04T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T13:24:12","slug":"another-book-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/another-book-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Book in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/science-and-fiction-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-509 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/science-and-fiction-books-1024x592.jpg\" alt=\"Science and fiction books\" width=\"525\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/science-and-fiction-books-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/science-and-fiction-books-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/science-and-fiction-books-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m part way through writing my third contribution to the Springer \u201cScience and Fiction\u201d series, after<a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/pseudoscience-and-science-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Pseudoscience and Science Fiction<\/a> last year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/rockets-and-ray-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rockets and Ray Guns<\/a> a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve done in the past, I thought I\u2019d share a photograph of some of the books I\u2019ve been using as \u201cresearch material\u201d \u2013 one of the most enjoyable things about writing for this series! Unlike the previous two books, the unifying theme of this one has more to do with style than subject-matter, so it may not be obvious from the photo. So you\u2019ll have to wait until Springer formally announce the new book \u2013 hopefully some time in the first half of next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m part way through writing my third contribution to the Springer \u201cScience and Fiction\u201d series, after Pseudoscience and Science Fiction last year, and Rockets and Ray Guns a few months ago. As I\u2019ve done in the past, I thought I\u2019d share a photograph of some of the books I\u2019ve been using as \u201cresearch material\u201d \u2013 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/another-book-in-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Book in Progress&#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":[21,39,7,33],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-books","tag-popular-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-writing-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}