{"id":8630,"date":"2017-09-30T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T12:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2017-09-30T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T12:36:16","slug":"silent-order-psionics-or-telepathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/?p=8630","title":{"rendered":"SILENT ORDER: psionics or telepathy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Lope asks concerning my SILENT ORDER science fiction series:<\/p>\n<div id=\"comment_171315089\" class=\"comment u-anchorTarget\">\n<div class=\"mediumText reviewText\"><em>&#8220;Is your new series is going to be pure technologist or going to have psionic powers?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the five SILENT ORDER books I&#8217;ve written, there&#8217;s no telepathy or psionic powers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That said, if I write future SILENT ORDER books I&#8217;m not going to limit myself. Some people get persnickety about what constitutes &#8220;hard&#8221; science fiction, but to be honest I don&#8217;t care. If I think a SF concept is cool and that it will work in a book, it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s hard or soft SF, I&#8217;m going to run with it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>(Even FROSTBORN had a couple of science fiction-like bits in it.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, no telepathy or psionic powers, at least not yet. But as one reader pointed out, there are railguns. Lots and lots of railguns. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking of that, watch for SILENT ORDER: WRAITH HAND to come out this week!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>-JM<\/div>\n<div id=\"comment_171315089\" class=\"comment u-anchorTarget\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"comment_171317845\" class=\"comment u-anchorTarget\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Lope asks concerning my SILENT ORDER science fiction series: &#8220;Is your new series is going to be pure technologist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-silent-order"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZ6ri-2fc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/BNSilentOrderIronHand-1.jpg?fit=800%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8634,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8630\/revisions\/8634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanmoeller.com\/writer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}