{"id":5696,"date":"2002-05-22T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T15:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2023-03-20T11:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:05:32","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2002\/05\/22\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI hope y&#8217;all have checked out the link to my <A HREF=\"\/books\/index.html\">booklog<\/A> to the left of this post? Just in cased you hadn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ve put up new reviews\/musings of two books: Poul Anderson&#8217;s <A HREF=\"\/books\/corridors-of-time.html\"><CITE>The Corridors of Time<\/CITE><\/A>, a science fiction time travel novel and Dutch author Nescio&#8217;s classic <A HREF=\"\/books\/nescio.html\">collection of three novellas<\/A>. Martin sez, check it out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCourtesy of the <A HREF=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\">Guardian<\/A> comes another book review, of China Mieville&#8217;s latest fantasy novel, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/generalfiction\/story\/0,6000,717310,00.html\">The Scar<\/A>. Apart from being a fantasy and sf writer, China is also active in politics, having been a candidate in the UK parliamentary elections last year for the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.socialistalliance.net\/\">Socialist Alliance<\/A>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fm\/\">Fantastic Metropolis<\/A> webzine China put together a list of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fm\/show.html?rw,50socialist,1\">fifty fantasy &#038; science fiction works that socialists should read<\/A>, which is probably also of interest to non socialists. For the Guardian he also put together his <A HREF=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/top10s\/top10\/0,6109,716474,00.html\">top ten of weird fiction<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope y&#8217;all have checked out the link to my booklog to the left of this post? Just in cased you hadn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ve put up new reviews\/musings of two books: Poul Anderson&#8217;s The Corridors of Time, a science fiction time travel novel and Dutch author Nescio&#8217;s classic collection of three novellas. Martin sez, check it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10127,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}