{"id":22103,"date":"2022-05-06T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22103"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:44:35","slug":"meeting-of-may-14-so-many-connecticut-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22103","title":{"rendered":"Meeting of May 14: So Many Connecticut Yankees!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join us on May 14th for a discussion panel led by Joe Aspler: So Many Connecticut Yankees!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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1889 frontispiece by Daniel Carter Beard, restored<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court<\/em> <\/strong>(1889) was not the first time travel story. However, it was probably the first in the subgenre of the person transported to an earlier era, who decides to bring his new home “up to date”\u009d as part of his survival plan. 21st century inflation has brought us from one individual to entire islands, fleets, and towns.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0 invite people to discuss their favourite time travel stories of this genre. We’ll begin with the following.<\/p>\n

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court<\/em>,<\/a> by Mark Twain (1889)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lest Darkness Fall<\/em><\/a>, by L. Sprague de Camp (1939)<\/p>\n

\u00a0Nantucket,<\/em><\/a> series, by S.M. Stirling (1998 \u2013 2000)<\/p>\n

Axis of Time<\/a>, <\/em>series (aka World War 2.0<\/em>) by John Birmingham (2004 \u2013 2007, plus short fiction)<\/p>\n

1632<\/em> series (aka <\/a>Ring of Fire)<\/em>, started by Eric Flint; expanded into a shared universe with many contributors, many novels, much short fiction. Their online magazine also features non-fiction articles and discussions of how to adapt 21st century technology to the 17th century. And it’s still going strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join us on May 14th for a discussion panel led by Joe Aspler: So Many Connecticut Yankees! Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) was not the first time travel story. However, it was probably the first in the subgenre of the person transported to an earlier era, who decides to bring … Continue reading Meeting of May 14: So Many Connecticut Yankees!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22106,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}