{"id":598,"date":"2015-01-04T20:34:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2015-01-04T20:34:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T18:34:26","slug":"sunday-recs-three-stories-and-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2015\/01\/04\/sunday-recs-three-stories-and-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Three stories and a novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, this is me procrastinating! Soon, soon I will go and finish the zero draft of a story that&#8217;s been unreasonably hard to write considering that I know how it ends and all&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s three stories I read sometime late last year and enjoyed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/science-fiction\/robots-and-computers\/daniel-mcpherson\/collectors-item\">Collector&#8217;s Item<\/a> by Daniel McPherson (in <em>Daily Science Fiction<\/em>): a robot servant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailysciencefiction.com\/science-fiction\/robots-and-computers\/wendy-nikel\/sardines-in-a-tin-can\">Sardines in a Tin Can<\/a> by Wendy Nikel (also in DSF): robot slaves. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/2014\/20141020\/cakes-f.shtml\">Dream Cakes<\/a> by Kelly Jennings (in <em>Strange Horizons<\/em>): an awesome meld of SF and magicky things. No robots, though.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Bonus novel rec: Octavia E. Butler&#8217;s <em>Kindred<\/em> is utterly amazing. It&#8217;s been on my to-read list for ages, and I finally started it yesterday morning. Well, I ended up reading it in two breathless, long sittings. It&#8217;s been a while since I read a novel in a single day! So worth it. Most other time travel novels suddenly pale in comparison&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, this is me procrastinating! Soon, soon I will go and finish the zero draft of a story that&#8217;s been unreasonably hard to write considering that I know how it ends and all&#8230; Anyway, here&#8217;s three stories I read sometime late last year and enjoyed: Collector&#8217;s Item by Daniel McPherson (in Daily Science Fiction): a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,30,19],"tags":[81,140,141,142,21,31,13,143],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-linkage","category-short-stories","tag-daily-science-fiction","tag-daniel-mcpherson","tag-kelly-jennings","tag-octavia-e-butler","tag-procrastinating-like-a-boss","tag-recs","tag-strange-horizons","tag-wendy-nikel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}