{"id":334,"date":"2014-12-15T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/12\/15\/give-the-gift-of-bawdy-sf-scifi\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:42:03","slug":"give-the-gift-of-bawdy-sf-scifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/12\/give-the-gift-of-bawdy-sf-scifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the Gift of Bawdy SF! #scifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/imgs\/tucker-print.jpg\" width=300 align=left hspace=10 vspace=15><br \/>\nLooking for a little something extra-special for the the literate pervert in your life?  May I suggest a copy of my celebrated novella <I>Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate<\/i>?  <I>Thumbnail blurb<\/i>: &#8220;A lonely veterinarian recounts a crippled, alcoholic, Confederate infantryman\u2019s attempts to teach decommissioned clockwork soldiers to make nice (*wink, wink*) with their Mormon neighbors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<li> Reviewers have lauded it as: &#8220;dark comedy, wonderfully absurd, riotously bawdy, populated by a full set of fantastically flawed characters . . . . Yet also a poignant tale of wanting to belong, wanting to be counted as a human among humans.&#8221;<br \/>\n<LI> While readers say stuff like: &#8220;reading this was like reading sci-fi from the Golden Age, the mind stretching shit that challenged your idea of the world, and what it means to be human&#8221; and &#8220;Highly recommended for people who like intelligent fiction that isn&#8217;t afraid to get dirty and weird.&#8221;<br \/>\nBig spenders can drop some coin one one of the *two* remaining hand-made, letter-pressed chapbooks (the so-called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/pickupay.html\">Patron edition<\/a>,&#8221; shown above).  Folks looking for a virtual stocking stuffer can <a href=\"http:\/\/davideriknelson.com\/pickupay.html\">pick-what-they-pay for DRM-Free digital editions<\/a>.  (Or, as always, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006RTWZF6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B006RTWZF6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=daverinel-20&#038;linkId=6HSVVBYUU654E7H5\">buy it on Amazon<\/a>.)<br \/>\nP.S.: Need something for your nearest-dearest crafty DIY makers? Consider a copy of my first DIY book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/2014\/12\/give_the_gift_of_getting_craft.html\">Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a little something extra-special for the the literate pervert in your life? May I suggest a copy of my celebrated novella Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate? Thumbnail blurb: &#8220;A lonely veterinarian recounts a crippled, alcoholic, Confederate infantryman\u2019s attempts to teach decommissioned clockwork soldiers to make nice (*wink, wink*) with their Mormon neighbors.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2014\/12\/give-the-gift-of-bawdy-sf-scifi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Give the Gift of Bawdy SF! #scifi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}