{"id":791366,"date":"2024-11-21T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791366"},"modified":"2024-11-21T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T14:53:04","slug":"lake-of-darkness-review-this-bold-experimental-slice-of-deep-space-sci-fi-is-just-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791366","title":{"rendered":"Lake of Darkness review: This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Something evil may be lurking in a black hole in Adam Roberts\u2019s new novel<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Liuzishan\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lake of Darkness<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Adam Roberts (Gollancz)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I WAS recently asked for my definition of \u201chard science fiction\u201d and I burbled something along the lines of \u201cit has to have a lot of science in it, and also spaceships\u201d. I\u2019m not sure the spaceships bit is right. But if, for the sake of this article, my terrible definition is the one in play, then <i>Lake of Darkness<\/i> by Adam Roberts hits the mark 100 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the spaceships are two deep-space\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435180-700-this-bold-experimental-slice-of-deep-space-sci-fi-is-just-brilliant\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something evil may be lurking in a black hole in Adam Roberts\u2019s new novel Liuzishan\/Getty Images Lake of DarknessAdam Roberts (Gollancz) I WAS recently asked for my definition of \u201chard&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}