{"id":1753,"date":"2007-11-13T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2007-11-13T20:57:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:57:44","slug":"fantastic_voyag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1753","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Voyages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was putting together the links for yesterday&#8217;s post on homeless veterans, I stumbled across another NPR story offering a survey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=16159971\">must-read books of the science fiction and fantasy persuasions<\/a>. Nancy Pearl, the Seattle librarian who serves as NPR&#8217;s resident book reviewer, claims that she isn&#8217;t a &#8220;fanatic&#8221; for sf\/fantasy, but the title she chooses to highlight reveal a connoisseur&#8217;s appreciation for the two genres. Pearl earns my instant respect with her inclusion of <i>Gateway<\/i> and and <i>The Forever War<\/i>, two books for which I&#8217;ve held a deep fondness since I read them in college. And her praise of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Day\/dp\/075640407X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1195008234&amp;sr=8-2\"><i>The Name of the Wind<\/i><\/a> is sufficiently intriguing for me to add the book to my Amazon wishlist. She also lavishes praise on <i>Cryptonomicon<\/i>, a doorstop of a book that has been sitting on my shelf for the better part of a decade and one that I really should get around to in the near future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was putting together the links for yesterday&#8217;s post on homeless veterans, I stumbled across another NPR story offering a survey of must-read books of the science fiction and fantasy persuasions. Nancy Pearl, the Seattle librarian who serves as NPR&#8217;s resident book reviewer, claims that she isn&#8217;t a &#8220;fanatic&#8221; for sf\/fantasy, but the title <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1753' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-sh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}