{"id":164,"date":"2008-07-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-07-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T07:00:00","slug":"machine-stops-the-by-forster-e-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"<u>Machine Stops, The<\/u>, by Forster, E.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my favorite kinds of SF stories are those that are written by mainstream authors.  Its not that they are automatically better quality stories, although they usually are, but I enjoy fresh perspectives on the themes that genre writers use again and again.  I do not believe it is a true thing to say that SF is limited, because there are only so many different themes to choose from.  We do get a wide variety of tales and ideas in SF, but the only limitations are in the author&apos;s heads,<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/170'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/170'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my favorite kinds of SF stories are those that are written by mainstream authors. Its not that they are automatically better quality stories, although they usually are, but I enjoy fresh perspectives on the themes that genre writers use again and again. I do not believe it is a true thing to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2508,2546,2527,2547,2534],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}