{"id":2576,"date":"2017-07-05T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:26:34","slug":"fans-of-the-martian-will-appreciate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/fans-of-the-martian-will-appreciate\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fans of THE MARTIAN will appreciate …’"},"content":{"rendered":"

… some aspects of my novel, according to another pre-publication review.<\/p>\n

Before we get to that, some news:<\/strong> I’m in the midst of examining the galley proof of Walking On The Sea of Clouds<\/em> and owe all my comments to the good folks at WordFire Press<\/a> by the end of the week. I have more news — as in, an actual release date — but I’m going to share it first with everyone on my mailing list<\/strong>, which you can sign up for here<\/a> (and even get a free [nonfiction] e-book).<\/p>\n

Now, back to the latest review of Walking On The Sea of Clouds<\/em>. Wendy S. Delmater, editor of the electronic magazine Abyss & Apex<\/em>, reviewed the novel for their 3rd quarter 2017 issue. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever wanted to be a colonist on the moon, this is as close as you will ever get without going there yourself.<\/p>\n

Fans of THE MARTIAN will appreciate the technical struggles of Frank and Stormie, Van and Barbara, and the other couples sent up to a moon colony started as a private venture. What\u2019s especially interesting is not just the bang-on accuracy of the engineering challenges involved, it\u2019s the behind-the-scenes wrangling of the company sending them, the independent contractors, and the very human situations these forces create for the colonists….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the whole review, and make a donation to support the magazine, at http:\/\/www.abyssapexzine.com\/2017\/06\/walking-on-the-sea-of-clouds\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nI love this image of the moon with the maria — the “seas” — appearing to be covered with water. (Image: “Librazione 16 03 14,” by Giuseppe Donatiello, on Flickr under Creative Commons.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you think as highly of the novel, should you decide to read it!<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… some aspects of my novel, according to another pre-publication review. Before we get to that, some news: I’m in the midst of examining the galley proof of Walking On The Sea of Clouds and owe all my comments to the good folks at WordFire Press by the end of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[225,411,386,32],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-book","tag-publishing","tag-science-fiction-2","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}