{"id":2409,"date":"2014-03-25T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2014-03-26T18:28:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:28:15","slug":"paul-march-russells-first-issue-of-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/25\/paul-march-russells-first-issue-of-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul March-Russell&#8217;s first issue of Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first issue of <i>Foundation,<\/i> the leading science-fiction journal, to be edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/march-russell.html\">Dr Paul March-Russell<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a> has just been published.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is number 116 of the long-running journal and begins with an editorial from Paul. \u2018And so Matt Smith has regenerated into Peter Capaldi. Likewise, Graham Sleight [the previous editor] has metamorphosed into me\u2019, he explains, using a <i>Doctor Who<\/i> analogy to describe taking over the role.<\/p>\n<p>The issue presents a tribute to the seminal science-fiction author Iain Banks, who sadly passed away last year. The contents include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Duggan, \u2018Inside the Whale and Outside Context Problems\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Paul Kincaid, \u2018Far Too Strange: The Early Fiction of Iain Banks\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Joe Norman, \u2018&#8221;Books of Truth&#8221;: Iain M. Banks \u2013 Atheist, Secularist, Humanist\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Andrew J. Wilson, \u2018Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill: Conversations with Iain Menzies Banks\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also included are a number of review articles and plenty of book reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The journal is published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-foundation.org\">Science Fiction Foundation<\/a>. For more details about the publication, please see the journal&#8217;s homepage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-foundation.org\/publications\/foundation\/index.html\">www.sf-foundation.org\/publications\/foundation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An online interview with Paul about the journal can be viewed here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7nVPOxOZfek\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7nVPOxOZfek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first issue of Foundation, the leading science-fiction journal, to be edited by Dr Paul March-Russell from the Department of Comparative Literature has just been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/25\/paul-march-russells-first-issue-of-foundation\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}