{"id":1258,"date":"2007-08-05T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2007-08-05T10:15:39","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T14:15:39","slug":"on-a-grand-designs-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"On a Grand Designs Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK website Sci-Fi Online reviewed the newest <i>Star Trek: Corps of Engineers<\/i> compilation <i>Grand Designs<\/i>, of which my own <i>Ring Around the Sky<\/i> is a part. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/graphics\/sce9grand.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\"> From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com\/2007_Reviews\/book\/07-08-06_trek-grand.htm\">their review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s obvious from his detailed descriptions that Gibson gets a real kick out of technology as he indulges himself and the reader in descriptions of the station that rings a whole planet. Two plot threads are nicely woven together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lovely review of the book as a whole, which has stories by Kevin Killiany, Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore, Dave Mack, Dave Galanter, and Paul Kupperberg.<\/p>\n<p>And, any time a review uses the phrase &#8220;a bit pants&#8221; as a complement, that&#8217;s a plus! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jackie Bundy, Kevin Killiany, and Dayton Ward for all for bringing this review to my attention. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK website Sci-Fi Online reviewed the newest Star Trek: Corps of Engineers compilation Grand Designs, of which my own Ring Around the Sky is a part. From their review: It&#8217;s obvious from his detailed descriptions that Gibson gets a real kick out of technology as he indulges himself and the reader in descriptions of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1258\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Grand Designs Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,75],"tags":[322,375,376,4089,4102],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","category-writing","tag-grand-designs","tag-review","tag-ring-around-the-sky","tag-star-trek","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}