{"id":1738,"date":"2008-02-20T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2008-02-20T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:39:00","slug":"the-electric-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1738","title":{"rendered":"The Electric Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/R7yeNEID-MI\/AAAAAAAABCA\/lEeI6I8DVko\/s1600-h\/z022008electric_church.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/R7yeNEID-MI\/AAAAAAAABCA\/lEeI6I8DVko\/s400\/z022008electric_church.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169180419597531330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Pitch:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201cBlade Runner\u201d<\/span> meets <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201cThe Dirty Dozen\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Overview:<\/span>  In the near future the two most powerful organizations on the planet are the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> United Federation of Nations <\/span>and <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316021725?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0316021725\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Electric Church<\/span><\/a>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The United Federation of Nations<\/span> controls the population through the use of their brutal and corrupt <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">System Security Force<\/span> [think elite military police].  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Electric Church<\/span> is a new religion growing at an exponential rate due to its promise of salvation through eternal life [as a cyborg].  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Avery Cates<\/span> is a \u201cgunner\u201d &#8211; hired muscle available for a price &#8211;  trying to stay under the radar of both groups.   When he mistakenly kills one of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SS cops<\/span> he finds himself given one option for survival: break in to the stronghold of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Electric Church<\/span> and assassinate it\u2019s leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Good:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jeff Somers<\/span>&#8216; writing.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Avery Cates<\/span> and his band of outlaws.  The story moves.  The cover illustration by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jae Lee<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Bad<\/span>: What happens to converts to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Electric Church<\/span>.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Ugly:<\/span>  The way most of the population lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Summary:<\/span>  My guess is the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316021725?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0316021725\">The Electric Church<\/a> <\/span>will make my list of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Best Books of 2008<\/span>.  I can\u2019t wait to read its sequel, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201cThe Digital Plague.\u201d<\/span>  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch: \u201cBlade Runner\u201d meets \u201cThe Dirty Dozen\u201d The Overview: In the near future the two most powerful organizations on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}