{"id":1875,"date":"2013-05-15T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:30:13","slug":"phoenicias-worlds-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds-the-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenicia&#8217;s Worlds: the cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1876\" alt=\"phoenicia's worlds\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds.jpg\" width=\"567\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds-431x300.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The blurb:<\/strong> La Nueva Temporada is Earth\u2019s only extrasolar colony \u2013 an Earth-type planet caught in the grip of a very Earth-type Ice Age.<br \/>\nAlex Mateo wants nothing more than to stay and contribute to the terraforming of his homeworld. But tragedy strikes the colony, and to save it from starvation and collapse, Alex must reluctantly\u00a0entrust himself to the <em>Phoenicia<\/em>, the only starship in existence, to make the long slower-than-light journey back to Earth.<br \/>\nBut it is his brother Quin, who loathes La Nueva Temporada and all the people on it, who must watch his world collapse around him and become its saviour&#8230;while everyone watches the skies for the return of the <em>Phoenicia<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u201cBen Jeapes knows how to spin a compelling yarn.\u201d Gareth L. Powell, author of<em> Ack Ack Macaque<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The Recollection<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cCrammed full of intrigue and invention: I\u2019ll be stealing ideas from this for years.\u201d Simon Morden, author of <em>The Petrovich Trilogy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blurb: La Nueva Temporada is Earth\u2019s only extrasolar colony \u2013 an Earth-type planet caught in the grip of a very Earth-type Ice Age. Alex Mateo wants nothing more than to stay and contribute to the terraforming of his homeworld. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/phoenicias-worlds-the-cover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}