{"id":73,"date":"2025-11-10T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-11-10T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:04:08","slug":"new-book-on-speculative-fiction-reading-and-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2025\/11\/10\/new-book-on-speculative-fiction-reading-and-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"New book on speculative fiction reading and readers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/eMZyJwkq\">Reading Science\/Fiction<\/a> by cluster members Miranda Iossifidis and Lisa Garforth, along with Amy C. Chambers and Joanna Verran. We explore how readers use speculative fiction to make personal, political and civic sense of living in densely techno-scientific societies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/11\/reading-science-fiction-cover-image-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/11\/reading-science-fiction-cover-image-crop.jpg 366w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/11\/reading-science-fiction-cover-image-crop-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/11\/reading-science-fiction-cover-image-crop-360x300.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Science\/Fiction by cluster members Miranda Iossifidis and Lisa Garforth, along with Amy C. Chambers and Joanna Verran. We explore how readers use speculative fiction to make personal, political and civic sense of living in densely techno-scientific societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}