{"id":2333,"date":"2015-04-27T20:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2015-04-27T20:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T20:09:17","slug":"book-log-spell-or-high-water-magic-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Book Log: Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0)<\/em> by Scott Meyer<\/p>\n<p>Scott Meyer, the creater of the webcomic\u00a0<em>Basic Instructions<\/em>,\u00a0turns out to be a pretty sharp fantasy\/sci-fi writer. \u00a0I read his first book,\u00a0<em>Off to Be the Wizard,<\/em> and enjoyed it quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental premise of all three Magic 2.0 novels (and this is a limited spoiler, as it is revealed in the first chapter of the first book) is that there exists a secret file on a major corporate network, which contains the\u00a0data on\u00a0everything, and adjusting\u00a0numbers in\u00a0the file adjusts reality.<\/p>\n<p>From that premise, Meyer explores the possibilities in an amusing and inventive way, doing a good job of balancing the need for story with the omnipotent potential of such a file.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice to find a good, self-published work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0) by Scott Meyer Scott Meyer, the creater of the webcomic\u00a0Basic Instructions,\u00a0turns out to be a pretty sharp fantasy\/sci-fi writer. \u00a0I read his first book,\u00a0Off to Be the Wizard, and enjoyed it quite a bit. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","tag-book-log-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}