{"id":3403,"date":"2026-02-15T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T04:09:44","slug":"review-network-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"Review: Network Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is another Murderbot novel, and I&#8217;ve not had much to say about the preceding chapters beyond &#8220;good fun.&#8221;  in <em>Network Effect<\/em>, I found that Martha Wells brought together a lot of the character threads that she placed in earlier novellas into a powerful emotional climax in the middle of a rollicking space adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has spent those early novellas putting the sets in place and establishing character details that feel like tropes &#8211; and in some ways are &#8211; that are combined here to have more depth and power than I had been expecting.  She snuck up on me, she did and in the best way.  I&#8217;m not going to say much more so she can sneak up on you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another Murderbot novel, and I&#8217;ve not had much to say about the preceding chapters beyond &#8220;good fun.&#8221; in Network Effect, I found that Martha Wells brought together a lot of the character threads that she placed in earlier novellas into a powerful emotional climax in the middle of a rollicking space adventure. She [&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-3403","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\/3403","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=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}