{"id":157677,"date":"2023-02-11T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/arch-conspirator-review-ancient-greek-tragedy-spun-into-sci-fi-gold"},"modified":"2023-02-11T16:44:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T22:44:57","slug":"arch-conspirator-review-ancient-greek-tragedy-spun-into-sci-fi-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/arch-conspirator-review-ancient-greek-tragedy-spun-into-sci-fi-gold","title":{"rendered":"Arch-Conspirator review: Ancient Greek tragedy spun into sci-fi gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arch-conspirator-review-ancient-greek-tragedy-spun-into-sci-fi-gold2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veronica Roth (Tor)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THERE isn\u2019t much world-building in Veronica Roth\u2019s sci-fi retelling of Sophocles\u2019s classic Greek tragedy <i>Antigone<\/i>. Then again, in <i>Arch-Conspirator<\/i>, there isn\u2019t much world. A dusty dystopian city (Thebes in the original, but it isn\u2019t clear where we are in the reboot) is all that remains after a thinly sketched environmental polycrisis has turned humanity into an endangered species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veronica Roth (Tor) THERE isn\u2019t much world-building in Veronica Roth\u2019s sci-fi retelling of Sophocles\u2019s classic Greek tragedy Antigone. Then again, in Arch-Conspirator, there isn\u2019t much world. A dusty dystopian city (Thebes in the original, but it isn\u2019t clear where we are in the reboot) is all that remains after a thinly sketched environmental polycrisis has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}