{"id":18015,"date":"2021-09-02T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T16:24:44","slug":"titan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/titan\/","title":{"rendered":"Titan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;&#8221;Something tried to eat me,&#8217; she said. &#8216;Something ate all the organic parts of my suit, and all my hair, then excreted the junk right here. Including me.&#8217; She noted in passing that she was glad the thing had classified her as junk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Titan<\/strong> by John Varley, published in 1979<\/p>\n<p>The Ringmaster&#8217;s mission is to explore Saturn. The crew discover a new moon, which they name Themis. Then they discover 6 points of light on Themis, which they don&#8217;t think are natural. When they get close something with tentacles reaches out to grab them. When Cirocco Jones wakes up, she&#8217;s not sure where she is but she can breathe and there&#8217;s something that looks like grass and trees.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in visiting a strange new world, this is the book for you.<\/p>\n<p>I like how they, not being superstitious, named their &#8220;boat&#8221; the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about exploration, friendship, and adventure.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd novel I&#8217;ve read by Varley. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/mammoth\/\"><strong>Mammoth<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;&#8221;Something tried to eat me,&#8217; she said. &#8216;Something ate all the organic parts of my suit, and all my hair, then excreted the junk right here. Including me.&#8217; She noted in passing that she was glad the thing had classified her as junk.&#8221; Titan by John Varley, published in 1979 The Ringmaster&#8217;s mission is [&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-18015","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\/18015","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=18015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18029,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions\/18029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}