{"id":370,"date":"2008-05-16T14:48:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2008-05-16T14:49:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:49:34","slug":"moonstruck-by-edward-lerner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/moonstruck-by-edward-lerner\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonstruck by Edward Lerner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Read 10\/2007] Science Fiction.  2005<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0743498852\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ka3%2B8MYaL._SL210_.jpg'><\/a><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0743498852\/104-0553807-9763937\">Moonstruck <\/a><\/em>reads like a sort of &#8220;retro&#8221; 1950&#8217;s SF novel.  It&#8217;s a fun, but superficial read.  Aliens land in D.C. and offer humans membership in the &#8220;Galactic Commonwealth&#8221;.  Most people on the planet believe the aliens, except for Kyle Gustafson (the President&#8217;s science advisor) and Darlene Lyons (a junior diplomat at the UN).  <\/p>\n<p>When nations&#8217; satellites start blowing up or malfunctioning, a new cold war erupts as most of the world doesn&#8217;t believe the U.S. is working with all of humanity.  Another alien, using her native form, crash-lands on earth and tells a very different story.  Who is telling the truth?  The first aliens also have a surprise up their sleeve &#8211; and it&#8217;s on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have to file this under bathroom reading.  :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Read 10\/2007] Science Fiction. 2005 Moonstruck reads like a sort of &#8220;retro&#8221; 1950&#8217;s SF novel. It&#8217;s a fun, but superficial read. Aliens land in D.C. and offer humans membership in the &#8220;Galactic Commonwealth&#8221;. Most people on the planet believe the aliens, except for Kyle Gustafson (the President&#8217;s science advisor) and Darlene Lyons (a junior diplomat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}