{"id":163,"date":"2002-09-08T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2002-09-08T22:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=163"},"modified":"2002-09-08T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2002-09-08T22:00:57","slug":"smith_sherwood_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/09\/smith_sherwood_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (04) The Rifter&#8217;s Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"85427404\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_85427404\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I finished <strong>book four of Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge&#8217;s Exordium series, <cite>The Rifter&#8217;s Covenant<\/cite><\/strong>. It doesn&#8217;t end on as a wham-bang note as the previous one, but I&#8217;m even more eager to find out what happens in the next and final volume: not only do I want to see if Our Heroes make it out of their tense situations reasonably intact and heart-whole, but it will be interesting to see how some of the plot threads and characters we&#8217;ve been following will come into play.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and my Guy Kay in spaaace comment wasn&#8217;t so far-fetched after all: the series&#8217; original editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davetrowbridge.com\/exordium\/archives\/000442.html#000442\"> apparently compared these to Dorothy Dunnett<\/a>, who was a big influence on Kay. (I should start a sf.written thread on &#8220;Lymond homages in sf,&#8221; really.) Unfortunately, beyond that, I can&#8217;t think of much else to say today; been rather ill all weekend and my brain is fried. (Boy, I really hope I feel better by tomorrow, or I will have the world&#8217;s worst first day at work&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I finished book four of Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge&#8217;s Exordium series, The Rifter&#8217;s Covenant. It doesn&#8217;t end on as a wham-bang note as the previous one, but I&#8217;m even more eager to find out what happens in the next and final volume: not only do I want to see if Our Heroes make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/09\/smith_sherwood_3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Smith, Sherwood, and Dave Trowbridge: (04) The Rifter&#8217;s Covenant&#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":[48,73,15],"tags":[391,416],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-exordium","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-smith-sherwood","tag-trowbridge-dave"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}