Here, for the edification of my readers, a few sites will help you figure out which book to crack next, based on your tastes:<\/p>\n
The Literature Map<\/a>, which cunningly tells you which authors are “close to” other authors you might like, and SF Signal’s handy flowchart for navigating NPR’s list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy books evah<\/a>.<\/p>\n They each have their flaws, of course.\u00a0 A lot of people have commented on weird omissions <\/a>and quirks <\/a>on the NPR list.\u00a0 The literature map, while awesomely cool, is occasionally flummoxed by alternate spellings (although it does at least indicate that someone who likes “Poppy Z. Brite” might also like “Poppy Brite” and “Poppy Z Brite”).<\/p>\n Anyway, they are both worth playing with, and they’re handy for bloggers who feel a bit lazy about coming up with a post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here, for the edification of my readers, a few sites will help you figure out which book to crack next, based on your tastes: The Literature Map, which cunningly tells you which authors are “close to” other authors you might like, and SF Signal’s handy flowchart for navigating NPR’s list of the top 100 science […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}