{"id":23195,"date":"2024-05-04T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23195"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:14:33","slug":"chimera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/chimera\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;In Earth&#8217;s long history of social change, fickle politics, and policy-by-trend, the ban on positronics had lasted the longest and tenaciously resisted reform. Hard to believe, on a world where once the newest and brightest and best technologies had been created and dispensed and embraced with almost childlike passion for novelty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chimera<\/strong> by Mark W. Tiedemann, published in 2000<\/p>\n<p>Coren has been tasked with ensuring that his friend Nyom Looms lays low until after the election her father is involved in. Nyom informs him that she&#8217;s going off world with some baleys. Then Coren is knocked out. When he gets up to Kopernik Station he finds that Nyom&#8217;s ship is there. But all the humans are dead, one robot has collapsed, and the other robot is missing.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mirage-2\/\"><strong>Mirage<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ariel and Derec return from the previous novel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a case that has implications for the relations between Earth, the Spacers, and the Settlers. It&#8217;s about an experiment ending up producing cyborgs, who are unpredictable. It&#8217;s about not feeling like doing your job after things go horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd book I&#8217;ve read by Tiedemann. I will read at least 1 more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;In Earth&#8217;s long history of social change, fickle politics, and policy-by-trend, the ban on positronics had lasted the longest and tenaciously resisted reform. Hard to believe, on a world where once the newest and brightest and best technologies had been created and dispensed and embraced with almost childlike passion for novelty.&#8221; Chimera by Mark [&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-23195","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\/23195","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=23195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23216,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions\/23216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}