{"id":637,"date":"2009-06-04T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2009-06-04T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T02:00:52","slug":"kim-stanley-robinsons-top-10-mars-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/04\/kim-stanley-robinsons-top-10-mars-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s Top 10 Mars Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I abhor top 10 lists as gimmicky click bait (for shame <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/132001\">Newsweek<\/a>, that trick works for Cracked, but it is unseemly for you), but I&#8217;ll forgive IEEE Spectrum for <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/aerospace\/space-flight\/my-10-favorite-mars-novels\/0\">this list of  Kim Stanley Robinson favorite Mars-related SF novels<\/a>. There are at least three novels on this list I&#8217;ve never heard of, let alone read. Hunting them down might be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still in awe of Robinson, and deeply regret not being able to string two sentences together when I met him while interning at NSF. <\/p>\n<p>He is in the top two of the all-time list of great SF writers named Robinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I abhor top 10 lists as gimmicky click bait (for shame Newsweek, that trick works for Cracked, but it is unseemly for you), but I&#8217;ll forgive IEEE Spectrum for this list of Kim Stanley Robinson favorite Mars-related SF novels. There are at least three novels on this list I&#8217;ve never heard of, let alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[97,96,95],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregs-reference","category-sciencegeek-porn","tag-kim-stanley-robinson","tag-mars","tag-sf","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-ah","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}