{"id":5515,"date":"2013-12-03T03:57:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2013-12-03T03:57:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:57:10","slug":"ben-allison-the-stars-look-very-different-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5515","title":{"rendered":"Ben Allison &#8220;The Stars Look Very Different Today&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NPR All Things Considered Sunday show included an interview with musician and composer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benallison.com\/music\/\" target=\"_d\">Ben Allison<\/a>\u00a0about his latest album, which was influenced by space sci-fi of the 1970s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/12\/01\/247556184\/ben-allison-leading-a-stellar-band-far-beyond-the-world\" target=\"_d\">Ben Allison: Leading A Stellar Band Far Beyond The World &#8211; NPR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=247556184\" target=\"_d\">Transcript<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B00FX3LNPK&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NPR All Things Considered Sunday show included an interview with musician and composer\u00a0Ben Allison\u00a0about his latest album, which was influenced by space sci-fi of the 1970s: Ben Allison: Leading A Stellar Band Far Beyond The World &#8211; NPR Transcript &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-sci-fi","category-space-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1qX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3773,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3773","url_meta":{"origin":5515,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Europa Report&#8221; opens in theaters","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've mentioned the new film\u00a0Europa Report a few times here over the past several months. It is about a future privately funded mission to the Jupiter moon Europa and is done in a documentary, found-footage style. The mission is also depicted in a very scientifically rigorous manner, i.e. the film\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Sci-Fi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Sci-Fi","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=38"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/w2BfobyYOmU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15443,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15443","url_meta":{"origin":5515,"position":1},"title":"Space book: &#8220;Treknology&#8221; by Ethan Siegel","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In astrophysicist Ethan Siegel's new book Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive, he looks at the impact of Star Trek and science fiction in general on technological innovation and development :\u00a0Star Treknology: Imagining The Future Into Being : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science and Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science and Technology","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=9"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&l=am2&o=1&a=0760352631","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4075,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4075","url_meta":{"origin":5515,"position":2},"title":"Video: Sci-fi short film, &#8220;Beyond&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The plot is rather opaque but the scenery is terrific in this sci-fi short: BEYOND, sci fi short film on Vimeo Space exploration goes awry in the beautiful scifi short \"Beyond\" \u00a0 BEYOND, sci fi short film from Raphael Rogers on Vimeo.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Sci-Fi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Sci-Fi","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=38"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9642,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9642","url_meta":{"origin":5515,"position":3},"title":"Red Rising Trilogy &#8211; a new space opera","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I think I may check out the space adventure Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown. This review of\u00a0Golden Son: Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy, makes it sound like a fun read:\u00a0\u00a0'Golden Son' Is Space Opera That Doesn't Forget The Opera -\u00a0NPR. Comparisons of the trilogy usually refer to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Sci-Fi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Sci-Fi","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=38"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&l=as2&o=1&a=0345539818","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14696,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14696","url_meta":{"origin":5515,"position":4},"title":"Videos: Four Sci-fi shorts films","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A selection of sci-fi film shorts: \"The Secret Number\" by Colin Levy - \"A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an institutionalized mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four. Doctor Simon Tomlin, a psychiatrist in a mental hospital, has a disturbing conversation with one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Sci-Fi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Sci-Fi","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=38"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/qXnFr1d7B9w\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3355,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3355","url_meta":{"origin":5515,"position":5},"title":"Spaceship book cover art for 1970s British paperbacks","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Check out this great collection of spaceship cover art works for 1970s British sci-fi books: Mind-Blowing Spaceships from 1970s British Paperbacks - io9.com Cover art by Tony Roberts for the book Beyond Apollo, by Barry Malzberg Find links to more galleries of classic sci-fi cover art and illustrations in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Solar Sci-Fi&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Solar Sci-Fi","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=38"},"img":{"alt_text":"Cover art by Tony Roberts for the book Beyond Apollo, by Barry Malzberg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/18thtaqp8szv7jpg\/ku-medium.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}