{"id":2442,"date":"2016-02-17T02:44:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2016-02-17T02:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:44:34","slug":"book-log-12-the-master-of-formalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2442","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #12 &#8211; The Master of Formalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Master of Formalities<\/em> by Scott Meyer [Amazon, Kindle]<\/p>\n<p>I actually read this before Book Log #11 (also by Scott Meyer), and I liked it much more than the other work.  This was a tight science fiction novel, which follows the &#8220;Master of Formalities&#8221;, an aid to the King and Queen of a planet that has been at war for generations.  The MoFs on every world serve as diplomats of a sort, maintaining the traditions and, well, formalities of interaction between and within planetary governments.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds odd, but it&#8217;s a really enjoyable premise executed quite well.  Scott Meyer, in my mind, has joined the ranks of Terry Pratchett and Christopher Moore in terms of providing interesting and witty books that provide some candy for the mind, with a dose of thoughtful world building.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master of Formalities by Scott Meyer [Amazon, Kindle] I actually read this before Book Log #11 (also by Scott Meyer), and I liked it much more than the other work. This was a tight science fiction novel, which follows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2442\">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":[512,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}