{"id":140,"date":"2002-05-30T20:12:30","date_gmt":"2002-05-31T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=140"},"modified":"2002-05-30T20:12:30","modified_gmt":"2002-05-31T00:12:30","slug":"doyle_debra_and_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/05\/doyle_debra_and_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (07) A Working of Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_working\" name=\"link_working\"><\/a>During finals, I also read <strong>Debra Doyle and James Macdonald&#8217;s <cite>A Working of Stars<\/cite><\/strong>, the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/05\/doyle_debra_and\/\"><cite>The Stars Asunder<\/cite><\/a>. This was good, but not the best in the series. Past books have featured assorted revelations-and-inversions, often related to messing with causality; these have explained oddities or added something to the reader&#8217;s knowledge of the universe. However, this book&#8217;s time-travel doesn&#8217;t seem to serve any particular purpose, which makes it sort of odd. There are some good bits here all the same, but it doesn&#8217;t hang together as well as prior episodes. I&#8217;m also more curious than ever what the next, currently-untitled Mageworlds book would be about; this book wraps up one plot thread, but doesn&#8217;t conclude another, and we&#8217;re still some five-hundred-odd years from the other books, with no clue how much of that time is going to be covered. Hmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During finals, I also read Debra Doyle and James Macdonald&#8217;s A Working of Stars, the sequel to The Stars Asunder. This was good, but not the best in the series. Past books have featured assorted revelations-and-inversions, often related to messing with causality; these have explained oddities or added something to the reader&#8217;s knowledge of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/05\/doyle_debra_and_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (07) A Working of Stars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,99,15],"tags":[194,300],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mageworlds","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-doyle-debra","tag-macdonald-james-d"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}