{"id":857,"date":"2006-09-21T06:29:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=857"},"modified":"2008-01-02T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:35:10","slug":"historical-science-fiction-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Historical Science Fiction Romance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whoever heard of historical romance science fiction? Imagine a Harlequin crossed with some cheese sci fi paperback. Weird. But. It. Worked. Sort of. It being The Sun and the Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once I got into the idea and I got comfortable keeping all of the characters straight, it was a little bit interesting. The King of France (who would be Louis XIV) gets a “sea monster” which is of course a mermaid courtesy of his Jesuit Natural Philosopher. The Jesuit has a sister who is not a typical woman, of course, and discovers the sea monster is not a monster or an animal but a WOMAN and she needs to stop the King from eating the mermaid and thus risking his eternal soul through cannibalism. Seriously. I’m not making this up. Vonda Mcintyre made it up.<\/p>\n

Also, there’s romance. The Jesuit’s sister, she has many suitors even though she has no money or title. There’s the gay guy. A music composer. A prince (or was that the bastard prince, umm whatever). A dwarf. And the king himself.<\/p>\n

Fun and mindless stuff. Oddly compelling about half-way through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoever heard of historical romance science fiction? Imagine a Harlequin crossed with some cheese sci fi paperback. Weird. But. It. Worked. Sort of. It being The Sun and the Moon. Once I got into the idea and I got comfortable keeping all of the characters straight, it was a little bit interesting. The King of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,3,68,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-73","category-books","category-chick-lit","category-sci-fi-and-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamingohouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}