{"id":371,"date":"2008-06-17T20:55:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/371"},"modified":"2008-06-17T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T01:55:31","slug":"recent-fiction-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/371","title":{"rendered":"Recent Fiction Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few of the recent science fiction books I’ve been reading that I have enjoyed:<\/p>\n

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I liked the series above — although my only complaint is that I think they could have done a bit of editing and fit it into 3 books rather than 4 without losing any important material.<\/p>\n

Fiction (action-thriller-drama):<\/p>\n

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Point of Impact was turned into a movie but did poorly. If you read the book, it becomes clear why doing a good movie would be tough (and why the movie did poorly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a few of the recent science fiction books I’ve been reading that I have enjoyed: I liked the series above — although my only complaint is that I think they could have done a bit of editing and fit it into 3 books rather than 4 without losing any important material. Fiction (action-thriller-drama): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd5QIe-5Z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":583,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/583","url_meta":{"origin":371,"position":0},"title":"Help a Geek! — Need some good fiction books to read!","date":"October 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I read two to three fiction books a month -- every morning for about 35 minutes while exercising and some before bed at night. So, I go through them at a rather rapid pace. 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I wanted to review the bag here on my web site to provide some unbiased and alternative opinions to this bag\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Recommendations"","img":{"alt_text":"IMG_0329","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_0329.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":658,"url":"https:\/\/www.wiredprairie.us\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/658","url_meta":{"origin":371,"position":5},"title":"Recent Sci-fi readings …","date":"January 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Some sci-fi books I\u2019ve read recently that I\u2019d recommend: Orphan's Journey (Jason Wander) Orphan's Destiny (Jason Wander) Orphanage (Jason Wander) The above books by Robert Buettner were very enjoyable, although shorter than I would have liked (either more depth added or fewer books). 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