{"id":9306,"date":"2010-04-23T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2010-03-27T13:34:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T18:34:54","slug":"dorkin-evan-hectic-planet-volume-1-dim-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9306","title":{"rendered":"Dorkin, Evan &#8211; Hectic Planet Volume 1: Dim Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoffun.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/hecticplanet1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/094315121X\/xeroxarmy-20\" target=\"_blank\">Hectic Planet Volume 1: Dim Future<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Man, I had high hopes for this book. As far as I know Evan has never done anything that I really hated. Dork and Milk and Cheese were two of the funniest books ever, but for some reason I had always avoided reading this series. Maybe it was the pirate idea, maybe it was science fiction aspect to the whole thing, or maybe it was because I had gotten the impression that he was taking the whole thing too seriously. Whatever the case, well, it looks like I was right to not jump right into this series with both feet. It&#8217;s the story of a ragtag (is there any other kind?) band of misfits trying to make some money in space, essentially. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s a <em>bad <\/em>book, because it&#8217;s not. I just didn&#8217;t think it lived up to the other, funnier stuff that he had done. Of course, this is his early work and maybe he just had to find his rhythm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Hectic Planet Volume 1: Dim Future Man, I had high hopes for this book. As far as I know Evan has never done anything that I really hated. Dork and Milk and Cheese were two of the funniest books ever, but for some reason I had always avoided reading this series. Maybe it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2701,2700,1002],"class_list":["post-9306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dim-future","tag-evan-dorkin","tag-hectic-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9313,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions\/9313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}