{"id":3151,"date":"2011-08-12T12:54:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/08\/12\/book-loot\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:56:48","slug":"book-loot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/08\/12\/book-loot\/","title":{"rendered":"Book loot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nBooks bought yesterday, top to bottom:\n<\/p>\n

\"bunch<\/p>\n

\nThe Dancers of Noyo<\/cite> — Margaret St. Clair
\nCity of Illusions<\/cite> — Ursula Le Guin
\nThe Dolphins of Altair<\/cite> — Margaret St. Clair
\nA Heroine of the World<\/cite> — Tanith Lee
\nNeedle in a Timestack<\/cite> — Robert Silverberg
\nPlanet Run<\/cite> — Keith Laumer & Gordon Dickson
\nCourtship Rite<\/cite> — Donald Kingsbury
\nThe Martian Inca<\/cite> — Ian Watson\n<\/p>\n

\nThe last one I got because of Adam Roberts’ reviews of Ian Watson’s books over at Punkadiddle<\/a>. Watson is one of those writers I read a lot of when younger just because the local library had so many of his books, then sort of lost sight of afterwards. The same goes for Tanith Lee. The Le Guin I had a long long time in Dutch, but never read as far as I know. One of her early works.\n<\/p>\n

\nMargaret St. Clair is a writer who has been largely forgotten it seems like; what I’ve read of her I liked. I also got these books to review for Ian Sale’s SF Mistressworks site<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nFinally I buy anything Silverberg or Laumer has done, though with the latter everything after 1971 or so isn’t very good. Sadly Laumer got a stroke that year, lost most of his writing abilities and never was the same afterwards. he had to keep on writing though to pay the bills, but that doesn’t mean you should buy them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Books bought yesterday, top to bottom: The Dancers of Noyo — Margaret St. Clair City of Illusions — Ursula Le Guin The Dolphins of Altair — Margaret St. Clair A Heroine of the World — Tanith Lee Needle in a Timestack — Robert Silverberg Planet Run — Keith Laumer & Gordon Dickson Courtship Rite — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-posts-interesting-only-to-me","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}