{"id":472,"date":"2009-06-01T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:04:09","slug":"monday-book-pick-the-peshawar-lancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-the-peshawar-lancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick &#8211; The Peshawar Lancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451458737\/eclipsswebwarren\" TARGET=\"_top\"><b>The Peshawar Lancers<\/b><\/a> by S.M. Stirling<\/p>\n<p>A fine example of the alternate history sub-genre of Science Fiction. The change in history occurred in 1878, when a series of asteroid strikes caused a &#8220;nuclear winter&#8221; effect. As a new Ice Age quickly over ran Europe, the British Empire relocated their seat of power to Imperial India. It&#8217;s a &#8220;rousing good adventure&#8221;, complete with Airships and large, steam powered mechanical Difference Engine type computing devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">The Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peshawar Lancers by S.M. Stirling A fine example of the alternate history sub-genre of Science Fiction. The change in history occurred in 1878, when a series of asteroid strikes caused a &#8220;nuclear winter&#8221; effect. As a new Ice Age quickly over ran Europe, the British Empire relocated their seat of power to Imperial India. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[13,24],"tags":[96,532,681,696,697],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-book-pick","category-science-fiction","tag-alternate-history","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-sm-stirling","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-7C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}