{"id":6028,"date":"2014-11-23T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2014-11-23T19:28:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:28:01","slug":"paulsons-book-of-loss-and-strange-new-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6028","title":{"rendered":"Faber&#8217;s Book of Loss and Strange New Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Faber has a fascinating story behind his novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00K4C3QWS\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00K4C3QWS&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=brandbooks-20&#038;linkId=JLFAOG25PRHYXCZL\">The Book of Strange New Things<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00K4C3QWS\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, as well as a curious story in the novel itself. The novel tells the story of an intergalactic missionary to works to translate the Bible to aliens who are not just a little different. They aren&#8217;t beautiful Martian queens. They are completely foreign to human beings, and they want to know about Jesus and &#8220;the book of strange new things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttbook.org\/book\/book-strange-new-things-michel-faber\">Steve Paulson of TTBOOK interviews Faber<\/a> here as part of a show on science fiction.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Faber has a fascinating story behind his novel, The Book of Strange New Things, as well as a curious story in the novel itself. The novel tells the story of an intergalactic missionary to works to translate the Bible to aliens who are not just a little different. They aren&#8217;t beautiful Martian queens. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6028\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Faber&#8217;s Book of Loss and Strange New Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}