{"id":3584,"date":"2022-04-27T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T14:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2022-05-09T01:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T01:42:23","slug":"mayenne-by-e-c-tubb-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/mayenne-by-e-c-tubb-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"E.C. Tubb, Mayenne (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3689 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/3236799.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/3236799.jpeg 282w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/04\/3236799-178x300.jpeg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I went to the Green Hand, I was looking for a light read that had good enough writing to get me through. My expectations were delightfully exceeded in this book! What I did;t realize when I bought it was that it was part of a 33-book sf series by Tubb. Despite this, the book does a good job introducing each character, even if they had been a part of the series for a while, so it was easy to enjoy standalone. The novel is about Dumarest et al. finding themselves on a conscious planet as they attempt to repair a broken space liner, where they are put through trials by the planet as the planet seeks to understand love. The novel, as the cover suggests, has a smutty part or two that is tasteful enough to recommend the book to a family member without it being weird. My favorite parts of the book were the action scenes, the fight choreography is concisely described and it held my attention throughout. A pretty short read too, coming in at just under 160 pages for a book with about a third the footprint of a piece of printer paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to the Green Hand, I was looking for a light read that had good enough writing to get me through. My expectations were delightfully exceeded in this book! What I did;t realize when I bought it was that it was part of a 33-book sf series by Tubb. Despite this, the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}