{"id":3418,"date":"2022-03-02T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:22:29","slug":"spanish-sci-fi-for-spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/spanish-sci-fi-for-spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Sci-Fi for Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Just like in Italy, Science Fiction in Spain is somewhat rare due to the general conditions. Nevertheless, recently a show called El Ministerio del Tiempo <\/em>(The Department of Time), has gained a lot of popularity.<\/p>\n

The plot revolves around three agents that are recruited from different time periods in history in order to serve in the ministry in the present day. What hides inside the ministry is the only time machine possessed by humans… or so they think. The show revolves around a story line where time has to maintain unchanged while an American company is trying to steal the secrets of time travel… to apply it to stock trading of all things in the world.<\/p>\n

Watch the show here<\/a><\/p>\n

Additionally on the topic of American companies that steal technology; Timeless, the American show with a similar premise by NBC was sued<\/a> by the creators of El Ministerio.<\/em>\u00a0NBC settled out of court.<\/em> interesting to see some prescience in that aspect of Science Fiction writing too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Just like in Italy, Science Fiction in Spain is somewhat rare due to the general conditions. Nevertheless, recently a show called El Ministerio del Tiempo (The Department of Time), has gained a lot of popularity. The plot revolves around three agents that are recruited from different time periods in history in order to serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}