{"id":50450,"date":"2023-12-16T16:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50450"},"modified":"2023-12-30T07:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T15:27:13","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-the-rising-by-james-doohan-and-s-m-stirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/12\/16\/%f0%9f%93%9a-the-rising-by-james-doohan-and-s-m-stirling\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; The Rising by James Doohan and S.M. Stirling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1086,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/d4574c72-8502-4f61-89b4-4389f5889400&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>69\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/d4574c72-8502-4f61-89b4-4389f5889400\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever wondered what it would be like to read military SF about a Scotch\/Irish former fighter pilot who turned spaceship engineer after being wounded and losing a hand, written by a former soldier and pilot turned actor who played a Scotch spaceship engineer after being wounded and losing a finger, then this is definitely the book for you! Aside from the rather amusing list of similarities between Doohan and his protagonist, and the curiosity of reading SF co-authored by Doohan, it\u2019s fairly standard military SF, combining interstellar war with a \u201cwho\u2019s the saboteur\u201d mystery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/jd_tr-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding The Rising.\" title=\"jd_tr.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather amusing similarities between the protagonist and author James Doohan, otherwise fairly standard military SF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[5837,5838],"class_list":["post-50450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-james-doohan","tag-s-m-stirling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}