{"id":5978,"date":"2014-06-25T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2014-06-25T23:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:14:32","slug":"review-pattons-spaeship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5978","title":{"rendered":"Review: Patton&#8217;s Spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Patton&#8217;s Spaceship<\/cite> (John Barnes; Open Road Integrated Media) is a new e-book release of an effort from 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the early action, in which the protagonist loses his family to a vicious terrorist group of unknown (and very exotic) origins, seem sadly dated in light of the even greater viciousness that terrorist groups of thoroughly well-known origins  have since exhibited.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, much of this novel is an entertaining alternate-history adventure, presenting (among other things) the most grubby and creepily plausible portrait of a U.S. under Nazi domination I have seen.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I must report that Barnes tends to get a bit too cute in name-checking historical figures. In the most extreme instance of this he makes the poet Allen Ginsburg into an action hero. That move is perhaps best read as unintentional comedy; for some intentional comedy, see if you can spot Robert Heinlein&#8217;s cameo appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has written better, before and since.  But this isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patton&#8217;s Spaceship (John Barnes; Open Road Integrated Media) is a new e-book release of an effort from 1996. Parts of the early action, in which the protagonist loses his family to a vicious terrorist group of unknown (and very exotic) origins, seem sadly dated in light of the even greater viciousness that terrorist groups of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=5978\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Patton&#8217;s Spaceship<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","category-science-fiction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5980,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions\/5980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}