{"id":2222,"date":"2016-08-20T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2016-08-20T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T00:22:20","slug":"review-totem-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2222","title":{"rendered":"Review: Totem Poles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short story by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, but <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\">Google Play<\/a> sold it to me for a buck, so it gets a review.<\/p>\n<p><em>Totem Poles<\/em> is an exercise in magical realism dressed in SF tropes.\u00a0 The protagonists are all globe trotters fighting unorthodox invaders from another world, but at the end of the story, it&#8217;s all magic and literature. Which I suppose it always is, but this didn&#8217;t knock me over.<\/p>\n<p>Probably worth the buck, but probably wouldn&#8217;t be my favorite in most short story collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short story by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, but Google Play sold it to me for a buck, so it gets a review. Totem Poles is an exercise in magical realism dressed in SF tropes.\u00a0 The protagonists are all globe trotters fighting unorthodox invaders from another world, but at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","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\/2222","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=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}