{"id":25219,"date":"2025-07-30T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25219"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:52:47","slug":"how-to-steal-a-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/how-to-steal-a-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Steal a Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;If you want to know what&#8217;s in my purse, just ask.&#8217; I pull on the strings, showing him inside. &#8216;What trouble could I get in with nothing more than a data recorder and some lip gloss?&#8217; He flinches, then he glowers at the way I laugh. &#8216;You and a data recorder? Dangerous.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Steal a Galaxy<\/strong> by Beth Revis, published in 2024<\/p>\n<p>Ada is at the Museum of Intergalactic History on Rigel-Earth for a fancy gala in support of Sol-Earth. She runs into Rian, who thinks he will catch her doing something illegal. But even though she&#8217;s going to do something illegal, she won&#8217;t get caught. She has not one but two plans &#8212; one for her client, and one for herself.<\/p>\n<p>This is a novella, the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/full-speed-to-a-crash-landing\/\"><strong>Full Speed to a Crash Landing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about people who care about things and people who are obscenely rich.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 2 books by Revis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;&#8216;If you want to know what&#8217;s in my purse, just ask.&#8217; I pull on the strings, showing him inside. &#8216;What trouble could I get in with nothing more than a data recorder and some lip gloss?&#8217; He flinches, then he glowers at the way I laugh. &#8216;You and a data recorder? Dangerous.&#8217;&#8221; How to [&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":[7,5,8,44],"class_list":["post-25219","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\/25219","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=25219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25224,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25219\/revisions\/25224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}