{"id":2294,"date":"2015-02-25T19:40:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=2294"},"modified":"2022-06-16T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:12:08","slug":"phoenicias-worlds-review-morning-star","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/phoenicias-worlds-review-morning-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenicia&#8217;s Worlds Review: Morning Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phoenicia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1911\" alt=\"Phoenicia's Worlds cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phoenicia1.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>From Morning Star, Tuesday, September 3, 2013:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another British writer who likes to base his world-spanning entertainments on sound political speculations is Ben Jeapes. Phoenicia&#8217;s Worlds (Solaris, \u00a37.99) is his most ambitious novel so far.<\/p>\n<p>Earth&#8217;s only colony outside the solar system, La Nueva Temporada, is far from self-supporting. On a planet that&#8217;s going through an ice age, it&#8217;s survival depends on supplies from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>When the artificial wormhole which links the two worlds suddenly stops working, there&#8217;s only one way to re-open it &#8211; by sending a spaceship on the decades-long journey home.<\/p>\n<p>But during those decades, what will happen to the social structures of an isolated, desperate colony? And how sympathetic will the mother planet be to its plight?<\/p>\n<p>This is space opera at its most enjoyable and accessible.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Reviewed by Mat Coward<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Morning Star, Tuesday, September 3, 2013: Another British writer who likes to base his world-spanning entertainments on sound political speculations is Ben Jeapes. Phoenicia&#8217;s Worlds (Solaris, \u00a37.99) is his most ambitious novel so far. Earth&#8217;s only colony outside the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/phoenicias-worlds-review-morning-star\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2294\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}