{"id":6122,"date":"2014-08-06T00:36:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2014-08-06T00:36:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T04:36:47","slug":"review-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6122","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Nexus<\/cite> (Nicholas Wilson; Victory Editing) is the sort of thing that probably would have been unpublishable before e-books, and in this case I&#8217;m not sure whether that&#8217;s good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot about this book that makes me unsure, beginning with whether it&#8217;s an intentional sex comedy or a work of naive self-projection by an author with a pre-adolescent&#8217;s sense of humor and a way, way overactive libido.  Imagine <cite>Star Trek<\/cite> scripted as semi-pornographic farce with the alien-space-babes tropes turned up to 11 and you&#8217;ve about got this book.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s implausible verging on grotesque,  but some of the dialog is pretty funny. If you  dislike gross-out humor, avoid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nexus (Nicholas Wilson; Victory Editing) is the sort of thing that probably would have been unpublishable before e-books, and in this case I&#8217;m not sure whether that&#8217;s good or bad. There&#8217;s a lot about this book that makes me unsure, beginning with whether it&#8217;s an intentional sex comedy or a work of naive self-projection by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6122\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Nexus<\/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-6122","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\/6122","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=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6124,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}