{"id":4543,"date":"2022-10-10T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4543"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:53:01","slug":"gallowglass-by-s-j-morden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/gallowglass-by-s-j-morden\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallowglass, by S.J. Morden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gallowglass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gallowglass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>Gallowglass<\/em>, by S.J. Morden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simon is brilliant at showing fundamentally decent people in fundamentally awful situations with pretty realistic physics. The situation in this case is the sheer Darwinism of asteroid claim jumping. There\u2019s an asteroid out there with enough mineral wealth to solve all the Earth\u2019s problems. Unsurprisingly, no one who wants it really cares how they get it. The point is also made that really the amount of wealth on the rock is immaterial; there\u2019s already enough wealth down here to solve all the Earth\u2019s problems, and the fact is that all the wealth locked up in the rock is going to go to people who have no intention of spending it usefully, so frankly, why bother? There\u2019s nothing quite as exciting as the car chase on Mars that we got with <em>One Way<\/em> and <em>No Way<\/em>, but it\u2019s still gripping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallowglass, by S.J. Morden Simon is brilliant at showing fundamentally decent people in fundamentally awful situations with pretty realistic physics. The situation in this case is the sheer Darwinism of asteroid claim jumping. There\u2019s an asteroid out there with enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/gallowglass-by-s-j-morden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4543","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4543\/revisions\/4644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}