{"id":2483,"date":"2010-12-05T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T06:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2010-12-05T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T06:30:33","slug":"crater-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"Crater Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, it&#8217;s hard to add much about the Deathlands books, at least anytime soon. I&#8217;ve already specified that they&#8217;re post-apocalyptic gun porn with implausibly equitable gender politics, right? Then yeah, at that point, there&#8217;s not yet a lot to add per book. In this specific book, our heroes are teleported[1] to <a title=\"Crater Lake by James Axler, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crater-Lake-Deathlands-James-Axler\/dp\/0373485980\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crater Lake<\/a>, where they discover the first gender-inequitable civilization in the series, which is notable both for being populated by obvious bad guys and for not having\u00a0occurred\u00a0during any of the previous three books. They also discover, as I got distracted by all the (admittedly non-Bechdelian, but the book <em>is<\/em> from 1987 and aimed toward teenage boys and gun enthusiasts) non-sexism from pointing out already, the evils of government-funded weapons research and a great deal more about the mysterious Doctor Theophilus. (Which, to be clear, is pretty cool.)<\/p>\n<p>[1] Which you would know if you also remembered that this particular post-apocalyptia has a sci-fi theme, which I know I&#8217;ve also mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, it&#8217;s hard to add much about the Deathlands books, at least anytime soon. I&#8217;ve already specified that they&#8217;re post-apocalyptic gun porn with implausibly equitable gender politics, right? Then yeah, at that point, there&#8217;s not yet a lot to add per book. In this specific book, our heroes are teleported[1] to Crater Lake, where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1247,1230,430],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-deathlands","tag-mens-adventure","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}