{"id":523,"date":"2014-09-28T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-09-28T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T09:00:49","slug":"sunday-recs-fairytale-memory-loss-alien-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2014\/09\/28\/sunday-recs-fairytale-memory-loss-alien-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Fairytale, memory loss, alien chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three awesome stories for you this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giganotosaurus.org\/2013\/11\/01\/how-the-milkmaid-struck-a-bargain-with-the-crooked-one\/\">How the Milkmaid Struck a Bargain With the Crooked One<\/a> by C.S.E. Cooney (in <em>Giganotosaurus<\/em>). Gaaaah, this story made me have all the feelings. It&#8217;s long, but it&#8217;s SO worth it &#8211; what a treat to sink into a world like this. (Incidentally, it&#8217;s a sequel of sorts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2011\/20110307\/sophia-f.shtml\">The Last Sophia<\/a>, which I believe I&#8217;ve recced here previously.) A gorgeous, detailed fairytale retelling with cool worldbuilding, a great first-person narrator, and gorgeous language. And rhymes! Basically: everything about this story is amazing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/science-fiction\/space-travel\/alex-shvartsman\/icarus-falls\">Icarus Falls<\/a> by Alex Shvartsman (in <em>Daily Science Fiction<\/em>). An aging protagonist suffering from memory loss &#8211; this story of space travel and a mother-daughter relationship is sad but in a very beautiful way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/science-fiction\/aliens\/curtis-c-chen\/zugzwang\">Zugzwang<\/a> by Curtis C. Chen (also in <em>DSF<\/em>). A middle-aged woman is challenged to a game of alien chess to save the crew of a spaceship. This story could&#8217;ve been bleak, but instead it made me happy and hopeful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three awesome stories for you this Sunday. How the Milkmaid Struck a Bargain With the Crooked One by C.S.E. Cooney (in Giganotosaurus). Gaaaah, this story made me have all the feelings. It&#8217;s long, but it&#8217;s SO worth it &#8211; what a treat to sink into a world like this. (Incidentally, it&#8217;s a sequel of sorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,19],"tags":[122,81,128,31],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage","category-novelette","category-short-stories","tag-c-s-e-cooney","tag-daily-science-fiction","tag-giganotosaurus","tag-recs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}