{"id":4505,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/sci-fi-me\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:21:26","slug":"sci-fi-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4505","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m mostly a fantasy and supernatural horror reader, but I&#8217;ve been on something of a sci-fi kick lately. Thing is, it&#8217;s been long enough since I read sci-fi regularly that I&#8217;m not sure what the good modern options are.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Jack McDevitt and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and I&#8217;m looking for more along those lines. That is, &quot;harder&quot; sci-fi than, say, Star Trek, but soft enough that it&#8217;s still character\/plot-driven first (as opposed to being an examination of future tech\/culture), and easily followed by someone who barely knows a nanobot from a megabyte. (The same touch of mystery one finds in McDevitt and Rusch is a plus, but not essential.)<\/p>\n<p>So, go ahead. Sci-fi me up, baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m mostly a fantasy and supernatural horror reader, but I&#8217;ve been on something of a sci-fi kick lately. Thing is, it&#8217;s been long enough since I read sci-fi regularly that I&#8217;m not sure what the good modern options are. I&#8217;m a fan of Jack McDevitt and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and I&#8217;m looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}