{"id":267,"date":"2005-03-06T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=267"},"modified":"2007-03-03T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T13:59:56","slug":"king-rat-by-china-mieville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/06\/king-rat-by-china-mieville\/","title":{"rendered":"King Rat, by China Mieville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0312890729\">Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remembered China Mieville&#8217;s name from <a href=http:\/\/media.loath.org\/>Aneel&#8217;s book page<\/a>, so when I stopped by the library, I looked him up, and this was the one book by him that they had.  It&#8217;s somewhat in the same vein as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&amp;path=ASIN\/0380789019\/\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Neverwhere<\/a>, describing a London with more dimensions than most of us ever get to see, or the urban fantasies of <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/03\/#memory_and_dream>Charles de Lint<\/a>.  The cover description plays up the importance of drum and bass techno music to the story, but I think that&#8217;s just to draw in the hip kids.  I thought it was okay.  The writing is gorgeous in spots, but the narrative seemed to kind of wander without a clear idea of where it was heading at times.  It was okay.  I&#8217;m happy I got it from the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon link I remembered China Mieville&#8217;s name from Aneel&#8217;s book page, so when I stopped by the library, I looked him up, and this was the one book by him that they had. It&#8217;s somewhat in the same vein as Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Neverwhere, describing a London with more dimensions than most of us ever get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}