{"id":33911,"date":"2025-06-15T14:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33911"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T19:53:02","slug":"best-band-named-for-one-or-more-obscure-science-fiction-paperback-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/15\/best-band-named-for-one-or-more-obscure-science-fiction-paperback-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Band Named For One Or More Obscure Science Fiction Paperback Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSIE just played &#8220;Tropical Disco&#8221; by Starwolf, apparently a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlpr.org\/arts\/2025-01-31\/starwolf-album-st-louis-tropical-disco\" target=\"_new\">recent St. Louis band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNUUbPwpE3g?si=zJ3XRaRfJWoUT5vn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was a Bob James song I&#8217;d not heard before.<\/p>\n<p>The science fiction series are Starwolf by Edmond Hamilton (I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/26\/book-report-starwolf-1-the-weapon-from-beyond-by-edmond-hamilton-1967\/\" target=\"_new\">The Weapon from Beyond<\/a><\/em> in 2016) and Starwolves by Thorarinn Gunnarson (I read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/18\/book-report-starwolves-2-battle-of-the-ring-by-thorarinn-gunnarson-1989\/\" target=\"_new\">Battle of the Ring<\/a><\/em> in 2023).<\/p>\n<p>Probably unrelated to the band name, but look!  I read books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSIE just played &#8220;Tropical Disco&#8221; by Starwolf, apparently a recent St. Louis band. I thought it was a Bob James song I&#8217;d not heard before. The science fiction series are Starwolf by Edmond Hamilton (I read The Weapon from Beyond in 2016) and Starwolves by Thorarinn Gunnarson (I read Battle of the Ring in 2023). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33912,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33911\/revisions\/33912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}