{"601121":{"#nid":"601121","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why Spice Is a Staple of Science Fiction","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology, was featured in the \u003Cem\u003EFood and Wine\u003C\/em\u003E, December 28, article, \u0026ldquo;Why Spice Is a Staple of Science Fiction.\u0026rdquo; The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit in the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor many writers, creating new worlds in genre requires first mining through the social and scientific things they\u0026rsquo;re familiar with and then making them unfamiliar, either by changing their composition or context. Speaking to \u003Cem\u003EFood and Wine\u003C\/em\u003E, Georgia Tech University professor and former president of the Science Fiction Research Association Lisa Yaszek noted that because spice is both a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/slideshows\/worlds-best-spice-shops\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eregionally distinctive\u003C\/a\u003E and internationally mundane aspect of life, it\u0026rsquo;s a fitting launching board for establishing that familiar and unfamiliar dichotomy in a world of altered technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/spice-science-fiction\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFood and Wine\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34554","created_gmt":"2018-01-22 15:10:52","changed_gmt":"2018-01-22 15:10:52","author":"ralu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"grounding lines","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/spice-science-fiction","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"593438":{"id":"593438","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communications (Photo by Georgia Tech)","body":null,"created":"1499803114","gmt_created":"2017-07-11 19:58:34","changed":"1499803370","gmt_changed":"2017-07-11 20:02:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"226213","name":"Lisa Yaszek .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30353,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20.jpg?itok=VXYovA4l"}}},"media_ids":["593438"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"116","name":"food"},{"id":"4632","name":"wine"},{"id":"167126","name":"SPICE"},{"id":"2273","name":"life"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}