{"id":10111,"date":"2006-01-06T10:07:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/01\/06\/10111.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:48","slug":"book-report-night-train-to-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/01\/06\/book-report-night-train-to-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Night Train to Rigel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: if you set any substantial part of an action\/adventure story on a train, you are obligated to get your good guy and your bad guy up on top of the train for a fistfight, or at least a chase. This is true if your setting is in nineteenth-century Herzoslovakia, with the train puttering along at fifteen miles an hour, and it&#8217;s true on a TGV. Well, and Timothy Zahn has just barely missed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/essentials\/traintorigel\/\">Night Train to Rigel<\/a>, where trains run between the stars at a light year a minute. Yes, he gets the good guys up on top of the trains, but the bad guys never get off their lazy pod-person asses to chase them. There&#8217;s no excuse for that.\n<p>Oh, and I enjoyed the book a lot.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the thing: if you set any substantial part of an action\/adventure story on a train, you are obligated to get your good guy and your bad guy up on top of the train for a fistfight, or at least&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17653,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions\/17653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}