{"id":1908,"date":"2011-03-22T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:48:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T23:48:29","slug":"pimping-legion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=1908","title":{"rendered":"Pimping Legion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c2cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1910\" style=\"margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"c2cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c2cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c2cover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c2cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c2cover-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a>Oh man, this kinda snuck up on me: \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crysis-Legion-Peter-Watts\/dp\/0345526783\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1291298254&amp;sr=1-1\">Crysis: Legion<\/a><\/em> is officially out today. \u00a0Del Rey is doing a bit of online promo, including posting the first fifty pages on their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/suvudu.com\/tag\/50-page-fridays\">Fifty Page Fridays<\/a>&#8221; site. \u00a0Of course, they won&#8217;t be posting them until Friday; in the meantime, though, I&#8217;ve written a series of four blog posts for their Suvudo pages; they focus mainly on the science behind the suit but they&#8217;re liberally illustrated with excerpts from the novel.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/sf-fantasy.suvudu.com\/2011\/03\/inside-crysis-be-strong.html\">first one<\/a> went live today; it&#8217;s a bit short relative to the others on account of devoting a chunk of the word count to introducing the series as a whole. \u00a0(It&#8217;s also a bit less bracing stylistically than the material you find here on the crawl, on account of corporate oversight. \u00a0The phrase &#8220;Homoerotic Iron Man&#8221;, for example, definitely did not make the cut.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also done a couple of e-mail interviews in between lying in bed and scouring out the inside of my leg. \u00a0The only one that&#8217;s gone live so far (that I know of, anyway) appeared on a little gaming site known as 3mgr.com, which has since apparently vanished off the face of the web. \u00a0Adi Robertson, the interviewer, posted it <a href=\"http:\/\/cyberpunksnotdead.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/19\/death-is-an-inconvenience-peter-watts-on-crysis-legion\/\">over on her own site<\/a> so it would not be lost to posterity. \u00a0(Sadly, one of the elements that will not be lost is the fact that I inadvertently used exactly the same sentence in my answers to two completely different questions. \u00a0Sometimes I think my body is rebuilding my wounded leg by cannibalizing brain cells for protein.)<\/p>\n<p>So, check &#8217;em out. \u00a0Browse the excerpts. \u00a0We&#8217;re not talking Nobel-caliber by any means, but if you have the usual take on video-game adaptations, I think you&#8217;ll be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man, this kinda snuck up on me: \u00a0Crysis: Legion is officially out today. \u00a0Del Rey is doing a bit of online promo, including posting the first fifty pages on their &#8220;Fifty Page Fridays&#8221; site. \u00a0Of course, they won&#8217;t be posting them until Friday; in the meantime, though, I&#8217;ve written a series of four blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crytekcrysis","category-public-interface","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}