{"id":242,"date":"2013-06-16T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2013-06-16T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T19:52:49","slug":"sunday-recs-kate-elliott-and-an-assortment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2013\/06\/16\/sunday-recs-kate-elliott-and-an-assortment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday recs: Kate Elliott and an assortment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number one rec today &#8211; something I&#8217;ve mentioned before, too &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateelliott.com\/wordpress\/\">Kate Elliott&#8217;s<\/a> amazing <em>Spiritwalker Trilogy<\/em>. I&#8217;ve had the flu &#8211; a-bloody-gain &#8211; and have been gobbling down books. I just reread the first two instalments of Elliott&#8217;s trilogy, <em>Cold Magic<\/em> and <em>Cold Fire<\/em>, and cannot wait for the last one (<em>Cold Steel<\/em>) to come out (June 25th!). Seriously, I haven&#8217;t enjoyed a reread this much in ages. Elliott describes the books as &#8220;an Afro-Celtic post-Roman icepunk Regency fantasy adventure with airships, Phoenician spies, the intelligent descendents of troodons, and a dash of steampunk whose gas lamps can be easily doused by the touch of a powerful cold mage&#8221;. It&#8217;s an amazing, wild ride. The setting and characters are incredibly delicious. I really admire Kate Elliott as a writer, and she blogs most enjoyably too! <\/p>\n<p>* <\/p>\n<p>As to recs of a shorter sort, here is a random sweetshop assortment of online fiction I&#8217;ve read and enjoyed recently (yes, I was on a <em>Strange Horizons<\/em> binge): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130401\/lucia-bird-f.shtml\">The Lucia Bird<\/a> by Ryan Simco, from <em>Strange Horizons<\/em>. Oh wow. I have a soft spot for stories involving awesome grandfathers, so this science fantasy totally got to me. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2011\/20110307\/sophia-f.shtml\">The Last Sophia<\/a> by C.S.E. Cooney, from <em>SH<\/em>. An intriguing fairy story, excellent narrator. Gentry babes! Lush imagery! Nineteenth-century diction! Strange but awesome. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2013\/20130506\/hear-the-enemy-f.shtml\">Hear the Enemy, My Daughter<\/a> by Kenneth Schneyer, also from <em>SH<\/em>. This was a pretty upsetting story, for me, but very cool use of language\/linguistics in SF. I do so appreciate linguist protagonists! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/interfictions.com\/the-thing-under-the-drawing-room\/\">The Thing Under the Drawing Room<\/a> by Jedediah Berry, from the inaugural issue of <em>Interfictions Online<\/em>. This is a weird and wonderful tale. I really enjoyed the writing style, and the whole story was just delightful! A barbarian hero in a sprawling Gothic complex of a house, in a competition involving being possessed by the spirit of an old god. Brilliant stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number one rec today &#8211; something I&#8217;ve mentioned before, too &#8211; is Kate Elliott&#8217;s amazing Spiritwalker Trilogy. I&#8217;ve had the flu &#8211; a-bloody-gain &#8211; and have been gobbling down books. I just reread the first two instalments of Elliott&#8217;s trilogy, Cold Magic and Cold Fire, and cannot wait for the last one (Cold Steel) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30],"tags":[38,53,31,13],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flailing","category-linkage","tag-interfictions","tag-language","tag-recs","tag-strange-horizons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}