{"id":634,"date":"2019-12-07T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2019-12-07T16:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:14:17","slug":"science-fiction-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/science-fiction-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Science + Fiction + Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"746\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books-1024x746.jpg\" alt=\"Sci-fi music books\" class=\"wp-image-632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books-1024x746.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books-1536x1119.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/scifi_music_books.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve just started writing my 4th book in Springer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/series\/11657?detailsPage=titles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Science and Fiction (opens in a new tab)\">Science and Fiction<\/a> series, following <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Pseudoscience and Science Fiction (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/pseudoscience-and-science-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pseudoscience and Science Fiction<\/a> (2017), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Rockets and Ray Guns (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/rockets-and-ray-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rockets and Ray Guns<\/a> (2018) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Fake Physics (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/fake-physics-spoofs-hoaxes-and-fictitious-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fake Physics<\/a> (2019). Like those books, this one focuses on the three-way overlap between science, science fiction and some other subject \u2013 which in this case is music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are plenty of books about sci-fi music \u2013 particularly film scores, or songs with SF-inspired lyrics \u2013 and the \u201cscience\u201d of music in the sense of acoustics and the physics of sound waves. I\u2019m not trying to compete with books like that. As I said, I\u2019m more interested in <em>three-way<\/em> overlaps, which narrows the field considerably. The picture above shows some of the research material I\u2019ve been consulting! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just started writing my 4th book in Springer\u2019s Science and Fiction series, following Pseudoscience and Science Fiction (2017), Rockets and Ray Guns (2018) and Fake Physics (2019). Like those books, this one focuses on the three-way overlap between science, science fiction and some other subject \u2013 which in this case is music. There are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/science-fiction-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science + Fiction + Music&#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":[56,39,7,33],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music-theory","tag-popular-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-writing-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}