I read the excerpt “Bubble and Squeak” from the collection G is for Gerrold<\/em>.\u00a0 Here’s the thing: it’s the best part of the book, talking about a relationship between two characters and what happens.\u00a0 Do look it up!\u00a0 The format of the book overall is one of rotating perspectives following a large cast of characters.\u00a0 This is a disaster book, and at first it reminded me of Lucifer’s Hammer<\/em> by Niven & Pournelle, but that book gets to the “what next” stage after a disaster.\u00a0 Ripple<\/em> goes into great detail about a cataclysmic earthquake\/tsunami but stops as the disaster ends.<\/p>\n One of the reasons I wanted to write about this book, though, is that it’s the first one that I have read through Patreon support.\u00a0 They were releasing monthly chapters but I ‘cheated’ and waited a couple of months until the entire set was published as I found out about the book fairly late.\u00a0 They offered a full download for anyone who was a $7\/month payer, so I joined for a month and downloaded the book.\u00a0 It’s a no-frills PDF, and there are a few typos, but it’s a really good value going right to the authors!<\/p>\n Patreon support: thumbs-up<\/p>\n The book as a whole: read the short story unless you are a Gerrold completist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I read the excerpt “Bubble and Squeak” from the collection G is for Gerrold.\u00a0 Here’s the thing: it’s the best part of the book, talking about a relationship between two characters and what happens.\u00a0 Do look it up!\u00a0 The format of the book overall is one of rotating perspectives following a large cast of characters.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Ripple Effect<\/i> by David Gerrold & Ctein (2024, Patreon)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,30],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-action","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}