{"id":117,"date":"2017-04-16T15:09:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2017-04-16T15:09:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T15:09:44","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-or-fantasy-as-in-american-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-fi: Or Fantasy, as in American Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaiman\u2019s <em>American Gods<\/em> is fantasy not sci-fi, but if you follow physics far enough you\u2019ll stumble into metaphysics and that\u2019s where the gods live.\u00a0 So maybe Gaiman\u2019s book was not just a distraction, it was a detour taking me on a journey the long way around to the place my own writings have sent me.\u00a0 Gaiman\u2019s gods are down and out wanderers discarded by the more enlightened American descendants of the gods\u2019 ancient believers.\u00a0 I got lost in the ectometaverse in my first series when I contemplated how a time traveler could meet himself; there had to be a place where those two consciousnesses were connected.\u00a0 In my new series, which begins with <em>Perturbations of the Reality Field<\/em>, the gods have punished any species that dares to think about traveling faster than the speed of light.\u00a0 Thou shalt not go supraluminal!\u00a0 I try to use physics and mathematics as the ladder to an expanded reality, Gaiman just walks right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaiman\u2019s American Gods is fantasy not sci-fi, but if you follow physics far enough you\u2019ll stumble into metaphysics and that\u2019s where the gods live.\u00a0 So maybe Gaiman\u2019s book was not just a distraction, it was a detour taking me on a journey the long way around to the place my own writings have sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}