{"id":17989,"date":"2021-08-08T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17989"},"modified":"2021-08-08T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T20:32:18","slug":"omnifix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/omnifix\/","title":{"rendered":"Omnifix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Alex was flummoxed, could hardly digest all the things they&#8217;d spoken of so far, felt like all these years he&#8217;d been a playgoer, watching the play from a safe distance, accepting the play as reality. But the play was just a Megaplex-doctored reality&#8211; the true action was taking place backstage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Omnifix<\/strong> by Scott Mackay, published in 2004<\/p>\n<p>The aliens were defeated 10 years ago but a new gigantic ship appears. Alex hopes that his means his department will get more money, as he studies alien technology. But it&#8217;s determined that the ship has no one aboard and it&#8217;s not going close to Earth. Then Alex loses his job, all his files are deleted, and his friend Max asks to meet him on the roof of the building.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about trying to figure out the mysterious things people &#8212; and aliens &#8212; are doing, and adjusting to a new body.<\/p>\n<p>Mackay always has an interesting situation for the reader to engage with.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 4th novel I&#8217;ve read by Mackay. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/outpost\/\"><strong>Outpost<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Alex was flummoxed, could hardly digest all the things they&#8217;d spoken of so far, felt like all these years he&#8217;d been a playgoer, watching the play from a safe distance, accepting the play as reality. But the play was just a Megaplex-doctored reality&#8211; the true action was taking place backstage.&#8221; Omnifix by Scott Mackay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-17989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17992,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17989\/revisions\/17992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}