{"id":4559,"date":"2022-10-10T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4559"},"modified":"2022-10-11T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T08:22:15","slug":"shattermoon-by-dominic-dulley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/shattermoon-by-dominic-dulley\/","title":{"rendered":"Shattermoon, by Dominic Dulley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shattermoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/shattermoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>Shattermoon<\/em>, by Dominic Dulley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, this is space opera like mum used to write. The wit, exuberance and moral laxity of the Stainless Steel Rat; the scale, variety, consistent physics and civilisation-threatening perils of Alastair Reynolds. Golden Age sf updated for the modern reader. The opening chapter could have been the setting for one of Slippery Jim diGriz\u2019s little ventures: the (female) hero is at a high society ball on a Ruritanian galactic empire type planet, planning a heist along with her dad and brother. It goes at first distractingly, then horribly wrong, and by the end of the book she is preventing a xenocidal war between species. She got there by a non-stop stream of events which, in a lesser book, would have dried up long ago as the author decided okay, she\u2019s had enough. Not here.<\/p>\n<p>And it has a well worked out, logical, consistent ftl system whose constraints can be worked into the plot, as any good space opera should. The first thing to do before executing a jump is to go through the pre-jump checklist. How can you not like that touch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shattermoon, by Dominic Dulley Now, this is space opera like mum used to write. The wit, exuberance and moral laxity of the Stainless Steel Rat; the scale, variety, consistent physics and civilisation-threatening perils of Alastair Reynolds. Golden Age sf updated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/shattermoon-by-dominic-dulley\/\">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-4559","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4653,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4559\/revisions\/4653"}],"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=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}