{"id":1964,"date":"2022-01-10T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:30:26","slug":"book-ftl-yall-tales-from-the-age-of-the-200-warp-drive-edited-by-c-spike-trotman-and-amanda-lafrenais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/10\/book-ftl-yall-tales-from-the-age-of-the-200-warp-drive-edited-by-c-spike-trotman-and-amanda-lafrenais\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: FTL, Y&#8217;all! Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive, edited by C. Spike Trotman and Amanda LaFrenais"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ironcircus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FTL-Yall-cover.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FTL, Y&#8217;all! Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive<br><\/strong>edited by C. Spike Trotman and Amanda LaFrenais<br><a href=\"https:\/\/ironcircus.com\/?product=ftl-yall\">published by Iron Circus Comics<br><\/a>2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love sci-fi, and so this anthology of <strong>what people would do if faster-than-light travel was possible, cheap, and open to anyone who could assemble some off-the-shelf parts <\/strong>was <em>irresistible<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I actually said, &#8220;OH NO&#8221; out loud in the shop, because my first thought was, <em>yes, some people would make their parents&#8217; old Camaro into a FTL travel device, and go into space with NO PREPARATION AT ALL.<\/em>  I would like to thank the editors for assuring me that I&#8217;m not the only one who would fear this&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This anthology has it all: <em>people who are competent with interstellar travel! People who are not! People who prepare! Cool ships!  Quiet disasters! People on the run from the authorities!  Other forms of life!  The absence of other forms of life! Social media! Pop culture references to famous sci-fi movies! A wide range of illustration styles in a wide range of stories&#8230; <\/em> I really enjoyed this hefty, speculative collection of adventures from a collection of talented artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTL, Y&#8217;all! Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Driveedited by C. Spike Trotman and Amanda LaFrenaispublished by Iron Circus Comics2018 I love sci-fi, and so this anthology of what people would do if faster-than-light travel was possible, cheap, and open to anyone who could assemble some off-the-shelf parts was irresistible. I think I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2022\/01\/10\/book-ftl-yall-tales-from-the-age-of-the-200-warp-drive-edited-by-c-spike-trotman-and-amanda-lafrenais\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: FTL, Y&#8217;all! Tales from the Age of the $200 Warp Drive, edited by C. Spike Trotman and Amanda LaFrenais&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88,8],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-graphic-novel","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}