{"id":52198,"date":"2025-07-28T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52198"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:09:12","slug":"network-effect-by-martha-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/28\/network-effect-by-martha-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Effect by Martha Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:128,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/a3ee505b-b3ee-4de5-bb05-e87755d11720&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260102075548\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/a3ee505b-b3ee-4de5-bb05-e87755d11720&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 03:07:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 15:19:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 09:15:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:39:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 02:34:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 12:27:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 12:27:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 41 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/a3ee505b-b3ee-4de5-bb05-e87755d11720\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 2021 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>These are just so good. Kidnapping, rescues, mysterious ships and colonies, and all with Murderbot\u2019s eternally exasperated outlook on the humans around it\u2026who for some reason, keep causing it to have to deal with emotions. The first novel in the series gets a slightly grander scope and cast of characters, but still easily holds true to the heart of it all.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4601.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Network Effect\" title=\"IMG_4601.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 41\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: The first novel in the series gets a slightly grander scope and cast of characters, but still easily holds true to the heart of it all.<\/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":[2012,3313,3148,6904],"class_list":["post-52198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-martha-wells","tag-the-murderbot-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52198","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=52198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52582,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52198\/revisions\/52582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}