{"id":28,"date":"2004-07-01T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T08:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-03-29T07:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T06:54:46","slug":"inversions-ian-m-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/07\/inversions-ian-m-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Inversions (Ian M Banks)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sci-Fi, 2\/10 &#8211; Spring 2004<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/inversions.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nBesides extra moons in the sky and stories of devastating meteor showers that toppled a former Empire, this novel&#8217;s squalid, pre-industrial world seems to have no sci-fi elements. I was constantly anticipating something cool to happen but it never did, or it did but was really really disappointing. I would have been so confused if I didn&#8217;t know about the culture from other books.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sci-Fi, 2\/10 &#8211; Spring 2004 Besides extra moons in the sky and stories of devastating meteor showers that toppled a former Empire, this novel&#8217;s squalid, pre-industrial world seems to have no sci-fi elements. I was constantly anticipating something cool to happen but it never did, or it did but was really really disappointing. I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-ian-m-banks","tag-sci-fi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}