{"id":2720,"date":"2006-01-17T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitty.de\/frlc\/2006\/01\/17\/abgestempelt\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T02:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T00:15:23","slug":"abgestempelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/2006\/01\/abgestempelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Abgestempelt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beim Guardian findet sich ein exklusiver Auszug aus „A Man without a Country“ von \u2192 Kurt Vonnegut<\/a>: \u2192 Hollow Laughter<\/a>. Darin beschreibt Vonnegut auch seine Anf\u00e4nge als „SF-Autor“:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of our critics are products of English departments and are very suspicious of anyone who takes an interest in technology. So, anyway, I was a chemistry major, but I’m always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to be classified as one, so I wondered in what way I’d offended that I would not get credit for being a serious writer. I decided that it was because I wrote about technology, and most fine American writers know nothing about technology. I got classified as a science fiction writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady, New York. My first book, Player Piano, was about Schenectady. There are huge factories in Schenectady and nothing else. I and my associates were engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians. And when I wrote about the General Electric Company and Schenectady, it seemed a fantasy of the future to critics who had never seen the place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

P.S.: „A Man without a Country“ erscheint im Februar auch in deutscher \u00dcbersetzung (Harry Rowohlt!) im schweizerischen Pendo-Verlag: Mann ohne Land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beim Guardian findet sich ein exklusiver Auszug aus „A Man without a Country“ von \u2192 Kurt Vonnegut: \u2192 Hollow Laughter. Darin beschreibt Vonnegut auch seine Anf\u00e4nge als „SF-Autor“: Most of our critics are products of English departments and are very suspicious of anyone who takes an interest in technology. So, anyway, I was a chemistry major, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1029,1111],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keep-watching-the-sky","tag-science-fiction","tag-vonnegut"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hinternet.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}