{"id":117529,"date":"2025-11-27T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=117529"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:28:27","slug":"this-quote-from-johndcook-converts-quite-well-to-advice-just-remove-his-opening-ii-dont-read-science-fiction-as-a-forecast-read-it-to-enjoy-a-storygood-science-fiction-in-my-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=117529","title":{"rendered":"This quote from @johndcook converts quite well to advice. Just remove his opening &#8220;I&#8221;:\n&#8220;I don\u2019t read science fiction as a forecast; read it to enjoy a story&#8221;\n\nGood science fiction, in my view, does two things right. It\n1) stays inside the rules of its defined universe (no &#8216;magic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This quote from @johndcook converts quite well to advice. Just remove his opening &#8220;I&#8221;:<br \/>\n&#8220;I don\u2019t read science fiction as a forecast; read it to enjoy a story&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good science fiction, in my view, does two things right. It<br \/>\n1) stays inside the rules of its defined universe (no &#8216;magic&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1994080026308833679\">Nov 27, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>November 27, 2025 at 11:25AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote from @johndcook converts quite well to advice. Just remove his opening &#8220;I&#8221;: &#8220;I don\u2019t read science fiction as a forecast; read it to enjoy a story&#8221; Good science fiction, in my view, does two things right. It 1) stays inside the rules of its defined universe (no &#8216;magic&#8217; &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) Nov &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=117529\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This quote from @johndcook converts quite well to advice. Just remove his opening &#8220;I&#8221;:<br \/>\n&#8220;I don\u2019t read science fiction as a forecast; read it to enjoy a story&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good science fiction, in my view, does two things right. It<br \/>\n1) stays inside the rules of its defined universe (no &#8216;magic&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-117529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117530,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117529\/revisions\/117530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117529"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=117529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}