{"id":281,"date":"2005-09-01T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2005\/09\/01\/281\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:18:47","slug":"281","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2005\/09\/01\/281\/","title":{"rendered":"281?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">Permutation City<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">Greg Egan<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\">\nThis one was a re-read.<br \/>\nThe story is mainly about uploaded humans, insanity, guilt, alternate biochemistry in a virtual environment and other such everyday concerns.<br \/>\nThe book is genuinely quite insightful, but I feel it no longer works as well as it did on my first couple of reads. This time round it felt like a long novella fleshed out with tenuously related short stories.<br \/>\nDefinitely worth picking up if you&#8217;ve never read any of Egan&#8217;s work before. I used to think that he could end up a genuine SF great, but a few of his latest books have passed me by entirely.<br \/>\nRecommended for anyone who likes the hard, techy end of Science Fiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">\nRating: B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permutation City Greg Egan This one was a re-read. The story is mainly about uploaded humans, insanity, guilt, alternate biochemistry in a virtual environment and other such everyday concerns. The book is genuinely quite insightful, but I feel it no longer works as well as it did on my first couple of reads. This time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}