{"id":52667,"date":"2026-01-03T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52667"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:22:15","slug":"thin-air-by-dean-wesley-smith-and-kristine-kathryn-rusch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/01\/03\/thin-air-by-dean-wesley-smith-and-kristine-kathryn-rusch\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Air by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/1b9759b3-7476-4d75-b1d8-d026ec7d50f0&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>Book 1 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/1b9759b3-7476-4d75-b1d8-d026ec7d50f0\"><cite>Thin Air<\/cite><\/a> by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;.<\/p>\n<p>Another decent book in the series, with another crisis for the Enterprise to solve and the colonists to endure. I\u2019m starting to wonder if they\u2019ll actually be able to wrap up all the dangling threads in just one more book.<\/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\/2026\/01\/IMG_5547.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Thin Air\" title=\"IMG_5547.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 1 of 2026: <cite>Thin Air<\/cite> by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;. I\u2019m starting to wonder if they\u2019ll actually be able to wrap up all the dangling threads in just one more book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[3100,3101,4097],"class_list":["post-52667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-dean-wesley-smith","tag-kristine-kathryn-rusch","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52667","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=52667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52668,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52667\/revisions\/52668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}