{"652147":{"#nid":"652147","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Snow Crash\u2019 Is a Cyberpunk Classic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, a Regents professor of science fiction studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article, \u0026#39;\u0026#39;Snow Crash\u0026rsquo; Is a Cyberpunk Classic,\u0026#39; posted on October 8, 2021, on\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EWired.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYaszek\u0026nbsp;spoke about the significance of groundbreaking cyberpunk novel \u0026#39;Snow Crash\u0026#39; by Neal Stephenson on the \u003Cem\u003EWired.com\u003C\/em\u003E podcast \u0026#39;Geek\u0026#39;s Guide to the Galaxy\u0026#39;.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScience fiction professor\u0026nbsp;Lisa Yaszek\u0026nbsp;says that from the vantage of 2021, the book has some weaknesses when it comes to race and gender. \u0026ldquo;If you\u0026rsquo;re someone who wants to learn a lot about the history and development of cyberpunk, I do still think it\u0026rsquo;s important to read, because it is an important intervention,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s the moment before cyberpunk really becomes a global storytelling mode, where all kinds of people\u0026mdash;authors of color, LGBTQ+ authors\u0026mdash;are really going to start using it.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35926","created_gmt":"2021-10-27 17:07:32","changed_gmt":"2021-10-27 17:13:27","author":"schurchman3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2021\/10\/geeks-guide-snow-crash\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628451":{"id":"628451","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1572548549","gmt_created":"2019-10-31 19:02:29","changed":"1572552353","gmt_changed":"2019-10-31 20:05:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239346","name":"Lisa Yaszek 740Xx scale.small_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91906,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg?itok=aSxwf4ln"}}},"media_ids":["628451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}