{"id":2225,"date":"2020-02-09T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/?page_id=2225"},"modified":"2021-01-05T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:34:44","slug":"2020-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> For 2020, following the pattern of the last few years, I am not dividing books into separate category lists, but each review line will have a tag or two indicating what kind of book it is (and whether listened to as audiobook rather than read as kindle\/paperback). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Catseye <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Stories of your Life<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction <\/li><li><strong>The Prisoner of Zenda<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Historical fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Unforsaken Hiero<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Ringworld&#8217;s Children<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Piranesi <\/strong>(5*)&#8230; Science fiction \/ fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Accidental Time Machine<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Camouflage <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Hawk: Hellfire<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Keeping God&#8217;s Secret<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Languages of Pao<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Graelfire <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Secret Network of Nature<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Geeky<\/li><li><strong>Space Opera<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Currents of Space<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Forever War <\/strong>(5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Tehanu <\/strong>(5*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Forever Peace <\/strong>(4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Great Eastern<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Alternate history<\/li><li><strong>Forever Free<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Tremors <\/strong>(5*)&#8230; Romance<\/li><li><strong>The Siren Song<\/strong>: Flint &amp; Steel, Fire &amp; Shadow 3 (5*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Gods of Jade and Shadow<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Dune <\/strong>(5*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>The Obelisk Gate<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Boat of a Million Years<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Always Coming Home<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>Planet Narnia<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Geeky<\/li><li><strong>The Long Cosmos<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>The Liminal Zone<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Long Utopia<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>The Long War<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>Murus ille famosus<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Geeky<\/li><li><strong>Moon over Soho<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Contemporary fantasy <\/li><li><strong>Planet Narnia<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Geeky<\/li><li><strong>The Moat around Murcheson&#8217;s Eye<\/strong> (4*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Player of Games<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>The Word for World is Forest<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Science fiction (audio)<\/li><li><strong>Rivers of London<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Contemporary fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Fifth Season<\/strong> (3*)&#8230; Fantasy<\/li><li><strong>The Long Mars<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; Science fiction<\/li><li><strong>Gone to Sea in a Bucket<\/strong> (5*)&#8230; WW2 naval fiction<\/li><li>The Skylark series \u2013\u00a0<strong>The Skylark of Space, Skylark Three, Skylark of Valeron, Skylark DuQuesne<\/strong>\u00a0(4*)\u2026 Science fiction  <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2020, following the pattern of the last few years, I am not dividing books into separate category lists, but each review line will have a tag or two indicating what kind of book it is (and whether listened to as audiobook rather than read as kindle\/paperback). Catseye (4*)&#8230; Science fiction Stories of your Life &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020-reviews\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2020 Reviews<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2225\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}