{"id":6301,"date":"2020-09-12T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=6301"},"modified":"2020-09-12T18:59:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:59:36","slug":"6301-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/6301-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters, Multiverses, and MI5: The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/202009-Eden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6302\" src=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/202009-Eden-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/202009-Eden-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/202009-Eden.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/48643567-the-doors-of-eden\">The Doors of Eden<\/a><\/strong> by Adrian Tchaikovsky | Aug 18, 2020 ) Orbit<\/p>\n<p><em>Brilliant&#8230;griping&#8230;a mind-boggling feast for fans of thoughtful speculative fiction&#8230;great writing and great characters&#8230;an intelligent science fiction spy novel&#8230;Charles Stross&#8217;s Laundry series all grown up&#8230;What, you mean I&#8217;ve got to write an actual review now? &#8212; Ernest Lilley,<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t miss The Doors of Eden in my August <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amazingstories.com\/2020\/07\/science-fiction-to-look-for-august-2020\/\">Science Fiction to Look for<\/a><\/strong> Column in <em>Amazing Stories<\/em>, but I hadn&#8217;t had a chance to read it, so it went into the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amazingstories.com\/2020\/07\/science-fiction-to-look-for-august-2020\/#OtherRecommendations\">Other Recommendations<\/a><\/strong> section because I was sure it was going to good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Doors Into Eden<\/strong> is a parallel worlds novel with British Intelligence and a plucky amateur monster hunter in the mix and between chapters, there&#8217;s are excerpts from the natural history of different Earth&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s completely compelling. Right down to those creature planet expositions. While I&#8217;m never far enough ahead to actually read for the heck of it, I broke off and made time to go back and take a look at this. I&#8217;ll do a full review soon, honest, but just go read the free sample and tell me you were able to stop there.<\/p>\n<p>Review to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky | Aug 18, 2020 ) Orbit Brilliant&#8230;griping&#8230;a mind-boggling feast for fans of thoughtful speculative fiction&#8230;great writing and great characters&#8230;an intelligent science fiction spy novel&#8230;Charles Stross&#8217;s Laundry series all grown up&#8230;What, you mean I&#8217;ve got to write an actual review now? &#8212; Ernest Lilley,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6301\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}