{"id":5317,"date":"2012-06-21T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2012-06-21T07:43:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:43:58","slug":"to-readawesome-books-to-replace-your-favorite-cancelled-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/to-readawesome-books-to-replace-your-favorite-cancelled-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"To Read::Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>FireflyThis ambitious genre mashup combined Wild West outlaws with spaceships, and spawned a huge fanbase. But despite getting a movie sequel, Joss Whedons beloved show is probably never coming back in any form other than comics and the occasional unofficial novel.The book substitute: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. We recommend this book, the first novel in the Culture series, a lot \u2014 but it really fits here. Like Firefly, Consider Phlebas is about someone whos on the losing side of a huge space war, in this case the war between the super-advanced Culture and the Idiran Empire. Our hero, Horza, opposes the Culture because he has philosophical disagreements with their utopian aims. And he winds up joining forces with a band of pirates and mercenaries on the good ship Clean Air Turbulence. This is the best methedone for Firefly withdrawal.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5919996\/awesome-books-to-replace-your-favorite-cancelled-tv-shows?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&amp;utm_source=io9_facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FireflyThis ambitious genre mashup combined Wild West outlaws with spaceships, and spawned a huge fanbase. But despite getting a movie sequel, Joss Whedons beloved show is probably never coming back in any form other than comics and the occasional unofficial novel.The book substitute: Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. We recommend this book, the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/21\/to-readawesome-books-to-replace-your-favorite-cancelled-tv-shows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Read::Awesome Books to Replace Your Favorite Cancelled TV Shows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wasted-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}