{"id":689,"date":"2010-10-11T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/11\/ebook-report-wildside\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T16:11:00","slug":"ebook-report-wildside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/11\/ebook-report-wildside\/","title":{"rendered":"eBook Report: Wildside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TLJbL80y4uI\/AAAAAAABI2o\/QhgrbtL_5rM\/s1600\/cover2.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/TLJbL80y4uI\/AAAAAAABI2o\/QhgrbtL_5rM\/s320\/cover2.jpg\" width=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rescued from the backlist: Steven Gould&#8217;s 1996 novel <i>Wildside<\/i>, now available in eBook format with spiffy new cover, shown above.  (Disclosure: I got the manuscript for free, as part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/eatourbrains.com\/steve\/?p=337\">crowdsource proofreading project<\/a>; and I probably took longer to work through it than he would have wanted.  Oh well.)<\/p>\n<p>Logline: A group of high school graduates spend their summer vacation in the wilderness of a parallel universe&#8211;one where humans never existed.  It&#8217;s a fun read, kind of the anti-<i>Stargate<\/i>, with similar technical ingenuity (&#8220;Want power in another universe? Use an extension cord. Want water? Run a hose&#8221;) but less adoration of the military.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Idea, as finally explained, does strain credulity, but Steve keeps a tight focus on the protagonists and their families throughout.  In that way, the tone is very similar to <i>Jumper<\/i>; but I wouldn&#8217;t call either that or <i>Wildside<\/i> strictly a YA novel.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Buy the eBook for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00413PTDK\/curtiscchensfree\">Kindle<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/ax.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/wildside\/id389649964#ls=1\">iBooks<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" title=\"CKL\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescued from the backlist: Steven Gould&#8217;s 1996 novel Wildside, now available in eBook format with spiffy new cover, shown above. (Disclosure: I got the manuscript for free, as part of his crowdsource proofreading project; and I probably took longer to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,64,11,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-geeky","category-publishing","category-vp12"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}