{"id":1351,"date":"2013-02-24T21:17:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T21:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2013-02-24T21:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T21:17:03","slug":"borogovian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2013\/02\/24\/borogovian\/","title":{"rendered":"borogovian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">Redshirts<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">John Scalzi<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/john-scalzi-redshirts-100x150.png\" alt=\"redshirts\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/john-scalzi-redshirts-100x150.png 100w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/john-scalzi-redshirts-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/john-scalzi-redshirts.png 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/span>Even though this is the first time I&#8217;ve physically read this book I already knew the story as I listened to it as an <a href=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2013\/01\/01\/alternates\/\" title=\"alternates?\">audiobook<\/a> first.<br \/>\nWhat initially looks like an affectionate parody of Science Fiction TV cliches (mostly Star Trek) turns into a rather meta piece about the reality of fictional characters.<br \/>\nThe main novel rattles along at a good pace and is very readable &#8211; just less clever than it thinks. The three codas are interesting experiments. The strongest one is easily the best thing about the book.<br \/>\nRecommended if you like Scalzi or media parodies.<br \/>\nI also note here that I recently read the first episode of the serial novel that Scalzi&#8217;s releasing this year (The Human Division). While I enjoyed reading it I decided to wait for the completed work, due out in May.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: B+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redshirts John Scalzi Even though this is the first time I&#8217;ve physically read this book I already knew the story as I listened to it as an audiobook first. What initially looks like an affectionate parody of Science Fiction TV cliches (mostly Star Trek) turns into a rather meta piece about the reality of fictional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,50,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-2","category-books","category-fiction","category-rated","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}