{"id":2434,"date":"2004-12-01T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2004\/12\/01\/good-sci-fi-is-hard-to-find\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T13:40:57","slug":"good-sci-fi-is-hard-to-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2004\/12\/01\/good-sci-fi-is-hard-to-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Sci-Fi is hard to find"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I’ll admit it…I’m not a frequent reader of Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit<\/a>. For one thing, he refuses to return my phone calls, even with the “special” caller ID thing I hacked<\/span> worked out. And then there’s all the links he’s throwing lately toward Discoshaman<\/a> and TulipGirl<\/a>, whom he wouldn’t even know about without lurking for hours on end in my blogroll. I mean, what’s the big deal? Are they the only<\/em> people in the world living in a country with a disputed presidential election? I think not.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I’m willing to set aside old grudges for someone who appreciates good science fiction, and he merits that category for this reference<\/a> to John Steakley’s Armor<\/em>,<\/a> a novel which I’ve always felt was underappreciated. I’ve even bookmarked Old Man’s War<\/em><\/a> for ordering when it becomes available to us mere mortals, based solely on Glenn’s recommendation. If you yearn for the good old days of hard sci-fi, instead of the vast wasteland of wimpy wizard-and-warlock “fantasies” that have taken over booksellers’ shelves, this sounds like your ticket out.<\/p>\n

All’s forgiven, Instabuddy. Call me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, I’ll admit it…I’m not a frequent reader of Glenn Reynolds’ Instapundit. For one thing, he refuses to return my phone calls, even with the “special” caller ID thing I hacked worked out. And then there’s all the links he’s throwing lately toward Discoshaman and TulipGirl, whom he wouldn’t even know about without lurking for… Continue reading Good Sci-Fi is hard to find<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-writing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12699,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/12699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}