OK, not really, since they are lumping fantasy in as well. \u00a0So you have crap written by George R.R. Martin listed along really good SciFi. \u00a0Ya, I am biased here. \u00a0I am much more of a SciFi fan than a fantasy one, and perhaps GRRM may be able to be write decent Elf porn or whatever passes for mainstream fantasy these days, but his attempts at SciFi that I have read have been utter drek.<\/p>\n
You can enter your top five books or series under comments for this NPR story on their quest for summer reading<\/a>. Fair warning, you have to register to post.<\/p>\n The five I entered were:<\/p>\n This list could change on any given day by one or two entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, not really, since they are lumping fantasy in as well. \u00a0So you have crap written by George R.R. Martin listed along really good SciFi. \u00a0Ya, I am biased here. \u00a0I am much more of a SciFi fan than a fantasy one, and perhaps GRRM may be able to be write decent Elf porn or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[165,312,374,492,568,603,627,664,696,697,698,739],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-sunday-scifi","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-h-beam-piper","tag-libertarian","tag-npr","tag-philip-jose-farmer","tag-pournelle","tag-robert-heinlein","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-scififantasy","tag-sunday-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-GG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n