{5\/5} “Old Earth had already been surrounded by a belt of slagged tech, fast-moving wreckage, and miscellaneous debris so dense that it required a skilled pilot with algo assistance to navigate it. The last time anyone had attempted to clear a path they’d accidentally started a conflagration between leave-behind killbots from the sore losers of three different wars, and nobody had been able to reach the planet until the shooting died down.”<\/p>\n
Hard Reboot<\/strong> by Django Wexler, published in 2021<\/p>\n Kas, a research historian, has travelled to Old Earth for a visit with members of her Scholarium. While at a party she is tricked by Zhi into betting on a warbot match. It turns out that Zhi is the pilot of one of the bots. Unexpectedly, Zhi loses which means Kas wins. Which she’s happy about until a little bot says the house will take its cut out of her Scholarium’s account.<\/p>\n This is a novella. The story is told with verve, and the world feels real.<\/p>\n It’s about visiting a place that’s very different from where you come from, meeting someone intriguing, and betting big when you’ve got nothing to lose.<\/p>\n This is the 1st book I’ve read by Wexler. I will be looking for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “Old Earth had already been surrounded by a belt of slagged tech, fast-moving wreckage, and miscellaneous debris so dense that it required a skilled pilot with algo assistance to navigate it. The last time anyone had attempted to clear a path they’d accidentally started a conflagration between leave-behind killbots from the sore losers of […]<\/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":[7,5,8,44],"class_list":["post-18508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508","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=18508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18511,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18508\/revisions\/18511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}