{"id":74,"date":"2006-01-22T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/?p=74"},"modified":"2007-07-25T12:51:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T12:51:48","slug":"his-girl-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/2006\/01\/22\/his-girl-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"his girl friday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"booktitle\">Steel Beach<\/p>\n<div id=\"author\">John Varley<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookentry\"><span id=\"pulloutl\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/steel beach.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Steel Beach\" \/><\/span>This book is very much a tribute to the style and themes of Robert A Heinlein.<br \/>\nHildy Johnson is a star reporter for a top Luna City dirt sheet. Life is good except for the bit where he keeps on attempting suicide. And just why is the Central Computer taking such a close interest in his case?<br \/>\nThis book seems to occupy a strange place among Varley&#8217;s work, almost entirely taken over by the aping of Heinlein. It also seems to both be part of and simultaneously outside Varley&#8217;s previously created timeline.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d recommend this to people who are huge fans of Heinlein and can stomach the politics, violence, suicides and cold blooded murder of innocents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bookrating\">Rating: B-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steel Beach John Varley This book is very much a tribute to the style and themes of Robert A Heinlein. Hildy Johnson is a star reporter for a top Luna City dirt sheet. Life is good except for the bit where he keeps on attempting suicide. And just why is the Central Computer taking such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,50,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-3","category-books","category-fiction","category-rated","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}