{"id":17957,"date":"2015-09-29T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-inside-story-on-lightless-one-of-the-years-most-exciting-new-space-operas"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:35:32","slug":"the-inside-story-on-lightless-one-of-the-years-most-exciting-new-space-operas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-inside-story-on-lightless-one-of-the-years-most-exciting-new-space-operas","title":{"rendered":"The Inside Story on Lightless, One of the Year\u2019s Most Exciting New Space Operas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-inside-story-on-lightless-one-of-the-years-most-exciting-new-space-operas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brand new space opera novel <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightless-C-A-Higgins\/dp\/0553394428?tag=lifeboatfound-20&ascsubtag=[t|link[p|1732688474[a|0553394428[au|5876237249236004136\" target=\"_blank\" data-amazonasin=\"0553394428\" data-amazontag=\"io9amzn-20\" data-amazonsubtag=\"[p|1732688474[a|0553394428[au|5876237249236004136\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Commerce', 'io9 - The Inside Story on Lightless, One of the Year's Most Exciting New Space Operas!', '0553394428');\"><i>Lightless <\/i><\/a><\/em> is a fast-paced, gripping read, and like all good science fiction, explores the human side of cutting-edge scientific concepts. We talked to debut author C.A. Higgins about using real physics in her story.<\/p>\n<p>In <em><i>Lightless<\/i><\/em>, a prototype spaceship on its maiden voyage on behalf of a totalitarian regime is infiltrated by escaped terrorists. And it\u2019s up to Althea, a socially awkward computer scientist who prefers the company of the <em>Ananke<\/em>\u2019s disturbingly sentient electronic system to that of her crewmates, to save the day as her well-ordered world begins to unravel.<\/p>\n<p><a x-inset=\"hidden\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightless-C-A-Higgins\/dp\/0553394428?tag=lifeboatfound-20&ascsubtag=[t|link[p|1732688474[a|0553394428[au|5876237249236004136\" target=\"_blank\" data-amazonasin=\"0553394428\" data-amazontag=\"io9amzn-20\" data-amazonsubtag=\"[p|1732688474[a|0553394428[au|5876237249236004136\" onclick=\"window.ga('send', 'event', 'Commerce', 'io9 - The Inside Story on Lightless, One of the Year's Most Exciting New Space Operas!', '0553394428');\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightless-C-A-Higgins\/dp\/0553394428?tag=lifeboatfound-20&ascsubtag=[t|link[p|1732688474[a|0553394428[au|5876237249236004136\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightless-C-A-Higgins\/dp\/0553394428?ta\u20269236004136<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-inside-story-on-lightless-one-of-the-years-most-ex-1732688474\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brand new space opera novel Lightless is a fast-paced, gripping read, and like all good science fiction, explores the human side of cutting-edge scientific concepts. We talked to debut author C.A. Higgins about using real physics in her story. In Lightless, a prototype spaceship on its maiden voyage on behalf of a totalitarian regime [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64050,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17957\/revisions\/64050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}