{"id":4924,"date":"2018-03-13T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2018-03-13T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:35:45","slug":"its-a-day-at-the-races-for-patently-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/13\/its-a-day-at-the-races-for-patently-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a day at the races for ‘Patently Absurd’"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s release day for Patently Absurd<\/em>, and that means heavy drinking<\/strike> a release day race. Right?<\/p>\n

Because even though A Day at the Races<\/i> isn’t anybody’s favorite Marx Brothers film, it’s still a dang site easier to deal with on my blog than Duck Soup<\/i> or Horse Feathers<\/i>.<\/p>

I mean, the last time I had Duck Soup<\/i> over I had marching soldiers singing “Hail, Hail Freedonia” in here for days. Actual days.<\/p>\n

So we’ll stick with the races this time.<\/p>\n\n

Booklist<\/em> was first past the post this time with their review<\/a>: \n

It\u2019s all lighthearted fun and wild invention, but Schenck takes a serious turn in the final story, which brings touching depth to his main characters. A great follow-up to Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em> (2017). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But they were soon overtaken by SFRevu<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Patently Absurd<\/em> may not be serious science fiction, but it’s great stuff, and it’s stuffed with the tropes that made the pulp era pulsate like a mutant alien squid, albeit with a nod towards modern sensibilities. Maybe, in its own way, it is serious science fiction, camouflaged as whimsy. No matter what you decide to call it, it\u2019s fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then, like a death ray out of nowhere, came Paul Semel’s interview with me<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I wanted to do something with ordinary people whose jobs made them interact with the mad scientists in the Experimental Research District. So I thought about accountants. I don\u2019t think about accountants that often. I mean, you don\u2019t, do you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The field’s still wide open: it’s anybody’s race at this point. Look! There’s Utopia State of Mind<\/a>, racing ’round the bend! And you can’t forget the Toronto Star<\/em>, where they loved Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom<\/em>; that review will be here on Saturday. (Hey, this is a marathon, not a sprint, okay?)<\/p>\n

And of course the real main event on release day is that you can buy the book now in all of the usual places. And once you read it, don’t be shy: please, please, please review it at Amazon, and at Goodreads, and wherever else books are reviewed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s all lighthearted fun and wild invention, but Schenck takes a serious turn in the final story, which brings touching depth to his main characters. A great follow-up to Slaves of the Switchboard of Doom (2017). – Booklist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patently-absurd","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}