{"id":2171,"date":"2008-12-02T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2008-12-02T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:49:46","slug":"incandescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2171","title":{"rendered":"Incandescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregegan.net\/INCANDESCENCE\/Incandescence.html\">Greg Egan&#8217;s latest novel<\/a>, as is not uncommon in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_contact_(science_fiction)\">first contact<\/a> novels, the chapters alternate between the viewpoints of a human explorer and a member of the newly discovered species.  In defiance of convention, Rakesh never finds Roi&#8217;s world.  (There is room for a sequel, but I don&#8217;t expect one.)  Roi lives in a tiny artificial world orbiting a black hole, and Rakesh finds a similar world orbiting a neutron star.<\/p>\n<p>So why is Roi in the book?  Because she is a leader in the blossoming of science in her world &ndash; going from pretechnological ignorance to general relativity in one lifetime, thanks to the peculiar environment &ndash; while the world contacted by Rakesh is stagnant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Greg Egan&#8217;s latest novel, as is not uncommon in first contact novels, the chapters alternate between the viewpoints of a human explorer and a member of the newly discovered species. In defiance of convention, Rakesh never finds Roi&#8217;s world. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=2171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}