{"id":5601,"date":"2025-03-17T21:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2025-03-17T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:28:31","slug":"monday-book-pick-space-pirates-of-andromeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/monday-book-pick-space-pirates-of-andromeda\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: Space Pirates of Andromeda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0DGYX8QPR\/eclipsswebwarren\">Space Pirates of Andromeda<\/a> by John C. Wright<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first book in the Starquest series, and if you are fan of Space Opera, you will probably like this book a lot. Seriously, E.E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith would have read this with a smile. It&#8217;s got Empires, Republics, suppressed Holy Warriors with exotic weapons, sentient robots, a Princess from a destroyed planet, and as the title suggests, Space Pirates and the brave members of the Space Patrol that hunt them. As one reviewer put this, this is what the Star Wars prequels could have been if they didn&#8217;t suck.<\/p>\n\n\n\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>Space Pirates of Andromeda by John C. Wright This is the first book in the Starquest series, and if you are fan of Space Opera, you will probably like this book a lot. Seriously, E.E. &#8220;Doc&#8221; Smith would have read this with a smile. It&#8217;s got Empires, Republics, suppressed Holy Warriors with exotic weapons, sentient [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1sl","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","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=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}