{"id":2593,"date":"2018-05-04T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2018-05-04T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:31:21","slug":"review-the-annihilation-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2593","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Annihilation Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2118\">Stross<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1929\">Laundry<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1892\">Files<\/a>. Most of my reviews of the series don&#8217;t have much to add to those links.\u00a0 <em>Annihilation Score <\/em>marks an interesting point for me in that it is set in the same universe but from a different character&#8217;s viewpoint.\u00a0 I was drawn in to the world partially by the computer science in-jokes, so it&#8217;s compelling and interesting to see the world without those references.\u00a0 Stross carries it out well, showing us how the Laundry looks from an academic woman&#8217;s perspective.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t miss a beat.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a fan of Stross&#8216;s Laundry Files. Most of my reviews of the series don&#8217;t have much to add to those links.\u00a0 Annihilation Score marks an interesting point for me in that it is set in the same universe but from a different character&#8217;s viewpoint.\u00a0 I was drawn in to the world partially by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","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=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}