{"id":109,"date":"2011-04-26T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-04-26T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:59:32","slug":"michael-moorcock-a-nomad-of-the-time-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/2011\/04\/26\/michael-moorcock-a-nomad-of-the-time-streams\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moorcock: A Nomad of the Time Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1565041941\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=frequentlyask-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1565041941\">This volume<\/a> includes the book I reviewd <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/2011\/04\/11\/michael-moorcock-the-warlord-of-the-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">a few weeks ago<\/a> and the two following novels in the same series. It is more of the same really &#8211; a mixture of &#8221;what if x never happened&#8221; that is alternative versions of possible 20th centuries, mixed with quite a bit of political thinking. Highly entertaining. I also makes one feel smart by picking up on references to various historical figures.<\/p>\n<p>There is quite a bit of some slightly dodgy philosophy in these books too &#8211; the idea is that some characters reoccur either in different stories in different roles, and some historical characters like Stalin, Gandhi, Reagan (that&#8217;s fascinating since the book was written in -72) etc appear in different circumstances. They are still the same regardless of their context which is fun but not very believable.<\/p>\n<p>I have ordered another volume of Moorcock&#8217;s, but I feel that unless it has some interesting new stuff in it this theme will get repetitive. I&#8217;ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This volume includes the book I reviewd a few weeks ago and the two following novels in the same series. It is more of the same really &#8211; a mixture of &#8221;what if x never happened&#8221; that is alternative versions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/2011\/04\/26\/michael-moorcock-a-nomad-of-the-time-streams\/\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-read"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/phagman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}