{"id":1790,"date":"2005-12-21T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1790.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","slug":"stephen-baxter-timelike-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/12\/21\/stephen-baxter-timelike-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Baxter &#8211; <i>Timelike Infinity<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a story involving the overthrow of an alien race&#8217;s occupation of Earth by means of wormhole-facilitated time travel, this is remarkably flat.  Lots of grand cosmological speculation and enough hard-SF tropes to choke a monkey, but I found the characters unsympathetic, and I never felt engaged in their struggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a story involving the overthrow of an alien race&#8217;s occupation of Earth by means of wormhole-facilitated time travel, this is remarkably flat. Lots of grand cosmological speculation and enough hard-SF tropes to choke a monkey, but I found the characters unsympathetic, and I never felt engaged in their struggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_2_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}