{"id":159,"date":"2016-10-19T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T18:14:06","slug":"review-of-escapology-by-ren-warom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/review-of-escapology-by-ren-warom\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Escapology by Ren Warom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-size-base review-text\" data-hook=\"review-body\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Escapology-Ren-Warom-ebook\/dp\/B015MA7R9Y\/\">Escapology<\/a><\/em> is a vivid, unique and engrossing work of dystopian cyberpunk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a future where most of the lands we know have sunk, where survivors eke out an existence on &#8220;land ships&#8217; of floating islands, or the overcrowded, unforgiving city on the single remaining piece of dry land, run by either a rigid social order or vicious crime lords, dreaming of escape to the orbiting cities above, the characters try to carve out a life. The Slip, a virtual world of avatars and hacks contrasts and blends and tangles with the real world as we follow hacker Shock Pao on a seeming suicide mission to steal what may bring the whole system down, Amiga, a cleaner working for the most savage boss in the city and Petrie, officer on a land ship whose newest crewmember might just hold the key to the whole sordid situation.<\/p>\n<p>Ren Warom has built a world with echos of Gibson, or of Philip K Dick, but in prose darkly and beautifully poetic. Edgar Allen Poe writing cyberpunk with a foul mouth. This is the kind of book you don&#8217;t so much read as sink into and give yourself over to.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-size-base review-text\" data-hook=\"review-body\">Get your copy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Escapology-Ren-Warom-ebook\/dp\/B015MA7R9Y\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escapology is a vivid, unique and engrossing work of dystopian cyberpunk. In a future where most of the lands we know have sunk, where survivors eke out an existence on &#8220;land ships&#8217; of floating islands, or the overcrowded, unforgiving city on the single remaining piece of dry land, run by either a rigid social order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,23,19,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-e-books","category-publishing","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}