{"id":2651,"date":"2011-06-27T22:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T02:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2011-06-27T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T02:24:37","slug":"monday-book-pick-phoenix-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-phoenix-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: Phoenix Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0062049763\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><strong>Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel<\/strong><\/a> by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris<\/p>\n<p>The first in a new Steampunk action\/adventure\/romance series. Not a bad first outing for the writing team of Ballantine and Morris.  Good solid formula adventure, the kind Lester Dent made a very nice living writing during the Golden Age of Pulp.  That is a favorable comparison by the way. \u00a0This novel, which takes place in the 1890&#8217;s, complete with airships,\u00a0Analytic\u00a0Engines, steam powered bar bots serving beer and a mystery filled &#8220;Ministry&#8221; protecting the British Empire. \u00a0This series follows two agents of that Ministry, a studious &#8220;Archivist&#8221; aptly named &#8220;Books&#8221; and the uber-field agent, Ms. &#8220;Braun&#8221;, who wears a bullet proof corset (Ministry issue of course), is a crack shot with her two customer revolvers and has a fondness for explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Stop groaning! The plot flows well and has enough twists and fight\u00a0scenes\u00a0to keep you engaged. \u00a0In all a good, fun read. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be looking forward to the next installment in this Steampunk series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris The first in a new Steampunk action\/adventure\/romance series. Not a bad first outing for the writing team of Ballantine and Morris. Good solid formula adventure, the kind Lester Dent made a very nice living writing during the Golden Age of Pulp. [&hellip;]<\/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":[13,21,24],"tags":[79,165,532,634,696,697,733],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-book-pick","category-pulp","category-science-fiction","tag-adventure","tag-book","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-pulp","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi","tag-steampunk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-GL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}