{"id":249,"date":"2021-04-29T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=249"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T00:31:10","slug":"the-zen-of-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/29\/the-zen-of-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zen of Sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Karma, they say, is a bitch. But karma is also a balancing act, a mode of returning one’s energy back to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been fascinated about religious futurisms for some time now, and already wrote a book about SF’s engagement with Catholicism<\/a>. Since then, I’ve been working on SF and Buddhism, and anyone who’s heard me talk about it knows that I’m putting a lot of energy out there about it, because it’s something I think is fascinating, culturally complex, and also important for how we develop collectively as a society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jedis,<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That energy karmically returned to me the day I got an email from Eric Molinsky, who runs one of THE best podcasts anywhere, the Imaginary Worlds podcast. It really is essential listening. Eric’s an old pro from the New York radio scene, and his ability to produce magical radio has reincarnated in his new role as host and producer of Imaginary Worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now you can join the people who’ve heard my energy about SF and Buddhism, because Eric only went and did an entire episode of Imaginary Worlds about exactly that. Better again, he got some absolutely phenomenal SF writers to talk about it too, including one of my favourite authors, Ramez Naam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The episode is here<\/a>, and if you rummage around in Eric’s archive, you’re bound to find a load more interesting episodes to occupy your lockdown time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m billed in the podcast as a professor at Coventry University, which isn’t accurate, as I haven’t risen to such nosebleed heights (yet!) and I’m also no longer in Coventry. That’s my karma, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karma, they say, is a bitch. But karma is also a balancing act, a mode of returning one’s energy back to you. I’ve been fascinated about religious futurisms for some time now, and already wrote a book about SF’s engagement with Catholicism. Since then, I’ve been working on SF and Buddhism, and anyone who’s heard … <\/p>\n

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