{"id":226,"date":"2017-05-23T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2017-05-23T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:16:26","slug":"review-gridlinked-by-neal-asher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/review-gridlinked-by-neal-asher\/","title":{"rendered":"Review &#8211; Gridlinked by Neal Asher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should have been a slam dunk: an intergalactic agent fights terrorists and negotiates with aliens while accompanied by a pet shuriken at the behest of an immortal Japanese administrator working for a superintellegent AI. \u00a0Furthermore it comes with an impressive pedigree, as the first of over a dozen polity novels by Neal Asher. \u00a0Unfortunately it\u2019s just kind of there, not bad, but inferior to similar books such as Altered Carbon or most of the Culture novels.<br \/>\n<em><strong>A by the numbers sci fi story with a lot of good ideas, but just OK execution. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span id='easy-footnote-1-226' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/23\/review-gridlinked-by-neal-asher\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-226' title='Read May 2017'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should have been a slam dunk: an intergalactic agent fights terrorists and negotiates with aliens while accompanied by a pet shuriken at the behest of an immortal Japanese administrator working for a superintellegent AI.  Furthermore it comes with an impressive pedigree, as the first of over a dozen polity novels by Neal Asher.  Unfortunately it\u2019s just kind of there, not bad, but inferior to similar books such as Altered Carbon or most of the Culture novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}