{"id":54054,"date":"2022-05-04T03:07:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T03:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54054"},"modified":"2022-05-02T03:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:18:15","slug":"martian-falcon-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/martian-falcon-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Martian Falcon (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New to me, a novel with Lovecraft as an extended character. It&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/martianfalcon0000bake\/page\/26\/mode\/2up?q=%22farnsworth+wright%22\">Martian Falcon<\/a><\/em> (2015) by Alan K. Baker, who I find is a fellow Brummie from Birmingham, England. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/falcon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/falcon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"504\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54056\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title is a play on the famous noir <em>The Maltese Falcon<\/em>. Lovecraft becomes a private investigator along with Charles Fort, in the New York City of 1925. A 1925 in which &#8220;the supernatural is real&#8221;. The Kindle edition <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3vuOaUx\">is \u00a32<\/a> in the UK. In paper it runs to 292 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Skimming the reviews quickly builds a picture of a fun steampunk \/ mythos \/ pulp-noir \/ Martian mash-up adventure in an alternative New York. Sounds great.  <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, despite the cover&#8217;s &#8216;Lovecraft and Fort&#8217; strapline seeming to suggest a series, there don&#8217;t appear to have been any more such novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New to me, a novel with Lovecraft as an extended character. It&#8217;s Martian Falcon (2015) by Alan K. Baker, who &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/martian-falcon-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraft-as-character","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54061,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54054\/revisions\/54061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}