{"id":2447,"date":"2016-02-19T02:26:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2447"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:15:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:15:19","slug":"book-log-14-fall-of-the-core-netcast-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2447","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #14 &#8211; Fall of the Core: Netcast Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fall of the Core: Netcast Zero<\/em> by Ryk Brown<\/p>\n<p>On my Amazon Wish List, I had noted that this was recommended by my friend Curt on 6\/20\/2015.  I don&#8217;t remember him recommending it&#8230; but if I wrote it, it&#8217;s probably true.  I need to check with him.<\/p>\n<p>This is very much a short story, and from reviews and descriptions, it seems to be a pre-quel sort of short story for a longer series.  Set several hundred years from now, this is a computer virus\/real virus scenario.  I&#8217;m guessing the virus lays the groundwork for the rest of the series.  <\/p>\n<p>It was fine.  There was nothing particularly striking about the book.  The writing was of middling quality for a sci-fi book.  Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t judge the series based on this pre-quel?  Need to check with Curt on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall of the Core: Netcast Zero by Ryk Brown On my Amazon Wish List, I had noted that this was recommended by my friend Curt on 6\/20\/2015. I don&#8217;t remember him recommending it&#8230; but if I wrote it, it&#8217;s probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2447\">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-2447","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\/2447","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=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}