{"id":26623,"date":"2012-02-22T07:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/a-bonus-chapter-of-goliath.html"},"modified":"2012-02-29T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:46:56","slug":"a-bonus-chapter-of-goliath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/a-bonus-chapter-of-goliath.html","title":{"rendered":"A Bonus Chapter of Goliath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed Scott Westerfeld&#39;s <i>Leviathan<\/i> trilogy (which I heartily recommend), he produced last December (hidden away on his website) a bonus chapter, taking place shortly after the end of the third book.  <\/p>\n<p><i>(Not<\/i> recommended for folks who haven&#39;t read the trilogy, since (a) it&#39;s massive spoilers, and (b) it&#39;s really intended as author-written fan-fic, and so is much more for fun than as a good example of the books themselves.)  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/bonus-goliath-chapter-and-art\/'>Bonus Goliath Chapter and Art! \u00ab  westerblog<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA bonus chapter, you say? What? Why? Here&#39;s how this came about. While reading a multitude of fan reviews of Goliath, the last book in the Leviathan trilogy, I noted a common theme. Many of you fe&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you enjoyed Scott Westerfeld&#39;s Leviathan trilogy (which I heartily recommend), he produced last December (hidden away on his website) a bonus chapter, taking place shortly after the end of the third book. (Not recommended for folks who haven&#39;t read the trilogy, since (a) it&#39;s massive spoilers, and (b) it&#39;s really intended as author-written fan-fic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/a-bonus-chapter-of-goliath.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bonus Chapter of Goliath&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32013,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/my-favorite-books-of-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":26623,"position":0},"title":"My Favorite Books of 2012","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Jan-13 11:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Make that, to be clear, favorite books read\u00a0in 2012 (via Goodreads). 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