{"id":52773,"date":"2026-04-11T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52773"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:51:07","slug":"identity-theft-by-greg-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/04\/11\/identity-theft-by-greg-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity Theft by Greg Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 12 of 2026: <cite>Identity Theft<\/cite> by Greg Cox.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: Not a bad adventure, and does a decent job of trying to rehabilitate the technology from one of TOS\u2019s more ignominious episodes. However, having one of the primary alien races be essentially humanoid evolved deer, complete with being referred to as bucks and does, and described with their antlers and rubbery noses, meant that my mental image of the entire adventure was basically a Star Trek LARP at a furry convention. Kinda worked against really being able to immerse myself in the story.<\/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\/04\/IMG_5931.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Identity Theft\" title=\"IMG_5931.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 12 of 2026: <cite>Identity Theft<\/cite> by Greg Cox. \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f<\/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":[3181,4097],"class_list":["post-52773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-greg-cox","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52773","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=52773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52774,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52773\/revisions\/52774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}