{"id":2196,"date":"2008-01-18T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/18\/buy-the-dragon-never-sleeps-bu\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T15:05:15","slug":"buy-the-dragon-never-sleeps-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/18\/buy-the-dragon-never-sleeps-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy The Dragon Never Sleeps! Buy it Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon conveniently informed me today of a very positive development in SF: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightshadebooks.com\/\">Night Shade Books<\/a> is republishing Glen Cook&#8217;s space opera novel <cite>The Dragon Never Sleeps<\/cite>, which I <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/library\/Dragon.html\">reviewed<\/a> quite some time ago. I&#8217;ve re-read it since then, and if anything, my opinion of it improved. It&#8217;s &#8220;New Space Opera&#8221; written years before there was such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1597800996\/ref=pe_5050_7729130_pe_snp_996\">pre-order it from Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightshadebooks.com\/cart.php?m=product_detail&#038;p=27\"> get it direct from the publisher<\/a>, but if you like Iain M. Banks, Ken MacLeod, Neal Asher, and that sort of crowd, you should buy this at once. It&#8217;s terrific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon conveniently informed me today of a very positive development in SF: Night Shade Books is republishing Glen Cook&#8217;s space opera novel The Dragon Never Sleeps, which I reviewed quite some time ago. I&#8217;ve re-read it since then, and if anything, my opinion of it improved. It&#8217;s &#8220;New Space Opera&#8221; written years before there was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/01\/18\/buy-the-dragon-never-sleeps-bu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buy The Dragon Never Sleeps! Buy it Now!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}