{"id":935,"date":"2015-06-11T23:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greole.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2015-06-11T23:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T13:35:45","slug":"book-review-the-abyss-beyond-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/book-review-the-abyss-beyond-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: The Abyss Beyond Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg\" alt=\"0b26a13\" width=\"149\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13.jpg 200w, https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/0b26a13-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I must apologise for a lack of activity over the past 3 or 4 days. I&#8217;ve had a dreadful cold that really knocked me around. On the bright side I did finish reading Peter F Hamilton&#8217;s &#8220;<em>The Abyss Beyond Dreams<\/em>&#8221; while bedridden. So I figured that I would write a book review as I once did quite a bit on Amazon. I will also try to avoid any Spoilers, though that limits what I can effectively say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-abyss-beyond-dreams.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-936\" src=\"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-abyss-beyond-dreams.jpg\" alt=\"the-abyss-beyond-dreams\" width=\"344\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction to the review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was really looking forward to this science fiction book. I had the pleasure of meeting Hamilton in Sydney at a book signing towards the end of the 1990s (I think he had just finished writing the Neutronium Alchemist). At the time of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I must apologise for a lack of activity over the past 3 or 4 days. I&#8217;ve had a dreadful cold that really knocked me around. On the bright side I did finish reading Peter F Hamilton&#8217;s &#8220;The Abyss Beyond Dreams&#8221; while bedridden. So I figured that I would write a book review as I once did quite a bit on Amazon. I will also try to avoid any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[4],"series":[],"class_list":["entry","author-soulthief","post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miscellaneous-rantings","category-good-writing","tag-writing","clearfix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/isle.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greole.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}