{"612260":{"#nid":"612260","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"9 new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out this October","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently written about in The Verge. The popular news and culture website included her recent book, \u003Cem\u003EThe Future is Female!\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;in its list of new sci-fi and fantasy books to check out in OCtober.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScience fiction isn\u0026rsquo;t usually what first comes to mind when you think Library of America, but the publisher has produced some compilations of authors such as\u0026nbsp;Ursula K. Le Guin,\u0026nbsp;Philip K. Dick, and\u0026nbsp;classic\u0026nbsp;novels\u0026nbsp;from the 1950s. This new anthology edited by Lisa Yaszek pulls together some of the best \u0026mdash; and forgotten \u0026mdash; female authors from the genre between the 1920s and 1960s.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EPublishers Weekly\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;gave the book a starred review, saying that it\u0026rsquo;s an \u0026ldquo;educational, enjoyable, and significant retrospective of science fiction\u0026rsquo;s foremothers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full story \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/1\/17823654\/sci-fi-fantasy-books-recommendations-early-october-2018\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit\u0026nbsp;of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-10-02 21:04:35","changed_gmt":"2018-10-02 21:04:44","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"advice for students","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/1\/17823654\/sci-fi-fantasy-books-recommendations-early-october-2018","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612259":{"id":"612259","type":"image","title":"The Future is Female!","body":null,"created":"1538514260","gmt_created":"2018-10-02 21:04:20","changed":"1539181684","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:28:04","alt":"Front cover of the book The Future is Female! by Lisa Yaszek","file":{"fid":"233063","name":"81JYreWrktL.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/81JYreWrktL.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/81JYreWrktL.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":496570,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/81JYreWrktL.jpg?itok=SRLgLm9r"}}},"media_ids":["612259"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11021","name":"Lisa Yaszek"},{"id":"39781","name":"LMC"},{"id":"179268","name":"The Future is Female"}],"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":""}}}