{"id":1275,"date":"2012-02-13T20:37:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T04:37:35","slug":"review-teleport-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1275","title":{"rendered":"Review: Teleport This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting things about the Kindle store is that one can find a lot of work by very small authors in there.\u00a0 I forget how I happened on Christopher Daniels&#8217;s\u00a0 <em>Teleport This<\/em>, but I know I was looking for a science-fiction-flavored page-turner for light entertainment.\u00a0 <em>Teleport This<\/em> fit that bill nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I would say that <em>Teleport<\/em> is a new writer working out his chops, not a virtuoso performance, yet.\u00a0 While the plot was diverting, it was also fairly pedestrian.\u00a0 The characters were distinct, but all likeable; I could sympathize with the villains.\u00a0 While those elements were competently executed, I found the dialog to be very strong.\u00a0 Daniels writes characters that are fun to listen to, in the sense that screwball comedies or Oscar Wilde characters are fun to listen to.\u00a0 Their dialog is just stylized enough to be snappy while staying realiztic enough to be believeable.<\/p>\n<p>Probably the biggest weakness is that the characters are all just a little too likeable.\u00a0 As with Deadman&#8217;s <em><a title=\"The Art of Arrow Cutting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering02.html#m02-i\">The Art Of Arrow Cutting<\/a><\/em>, everyone here is agreeable and reasonable, or they are a villainous caricature.<\/p>\n<p>Fun to see a writer working out his voice somewhat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the interesting things about the Kindle store is that one can find a lot of work by very small authors in there.\u00a0 I forget how I happened on Christopher Daniels&#8217;s\u00a0 Teleport This, but I know I was looking for a science-fiction-flavored page-turner for light entertainment.\u00a0 Teleport This fit that bill nicely. Overall I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}