{"id":12437,"date":"2019-04-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2019-04-24T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T21:15:13","slug":"zero-g-by-dan-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/zero-g-by-dan-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero G by Dan Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1544204365l\/43168985.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw this a couple of months ago when it was free, and I recognized Dan Wells as the guy who wrote the I Am Not a Serial Killer books, so I decided to pick it up. Since Dan Wells tends to write mostly horror, I wasn&#8217;t sure how good his science fiction would be, but I was pleasantly surprised! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was a really fun book. It&#8217;s definitely middle grade, so a lot of concepts familiar to veteran sci-fi readers get lengthy explanations, especially toward the beginning, which is great for younger readers but a little tedious for us old-timers. Once all the science is sufficiently explained, however, the story really gets going. The characters are delightful, especially Zero, who comes up with a bunch of clever ways to fight back against the pirates. Think Home Alone meets Gravity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a short book for an audiobook, but the production is really top rate, with a soundtrack and a cast of voice actors who really do a fantastic job. The production quality gets five stars easily. I picked it up as a free Audible Original, but I wouldn&#8217;t have regretted spending a credit on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, a very fun book. This is the kind of story I&#8217;d want to share with my kids to introduce them to science fiction. Very clean and not too scary, but with just enough of a sense of danger to really draw you in. Well done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this a couple of months ago when it was free, and I recognized Dan Wells as the guy who wrote the I Am Not a Serial Killer books, so I decided to pick it up. Since Dan Wells tends to write mostly horror, I wasn&#8217;t sure how good his science fiction would be,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/zero-g-by-dan-wells\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zero G by Dan Wells<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1113,276,173,1228,280],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews","tag-dan-wells","tag-hard-science-fiction","tag-middle-grade","tag-young-adult","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3eB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12460,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions\/12460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}