{"id":3007,"date":"2020-12-20T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T22:14:50","slug":"review-eye-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3007","title":{"rendered":"Review: Eye in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For all the cult around Philip K. Dick, it&#8217;s easy to forget that he&#8217;s a just plain good writer.  I hadn&#8217;t heard of <em>Eye in the Sky<\/em> before I picked it up, but it turned out to be an interesting and fun read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The premise is that a bunch of folks get caught in a particle accelerator  accident and wind up sharing a paranormal\/parapsychological experience.  The experience is pure PKD.  Plenty of social commentary and a dash of paranoia, rendered with panache and flavored with 1970&#8217;s California spices.  There&#8217;s enough to spoil here that I won&#8217;t get into the plot much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty to chew on, and it&#8217;s nakedly critical of society in ways that were more transgressive 50 years ago, but certainly still relevant.  It&#8217;s also snappy and entertaining with a surprisingly upbeat ending for someone of PKD&#8217;s rep for darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the cult around Philip K. Dick, it&#8217;s easy to forget that he&#8217;s a just plain good writer. I hadn&#8217;t heard of Eye in the Sky before I picked it up, but it turned out to be an interesting and fun read. The premise is that a bunch of folks get caught in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","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=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}