{"id":280,"date":"2004-07-26T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=280"},"modified":"2004-07-26T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T02:11:40","slug":"bujold_lois_mcm_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/07\/bujold_lois_mcm_7\/","title":{"rendered":"Bujold, Lois McMaster: (202) Paladin of Souls (as part of the 2004 Hugo Nominees for Novel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally part of one post discussing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/07\/2004_hugo_award.php\">2004 Hugo Nominees for Novel<\/a>, broken up for MT import; see that post for comments]<\/p>\n<p>And so my last two votes are between <strong>Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s <cite>Paladin of Souls<\/cite><\/strong> and <strong>Robert Charles Wilson&#8217;s <cite>Blind Lake<\/cite><\/strong>. This was a tough decision, actually. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/12\/bujold_lois_mcm_6\/\">previously logged <cite>Paladin<\/cite><\/a>, so I&#8217;ll just say that being fantasy does not disqualify it, certainly not if <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/02\/gaiman_neil_201\/\"><cite>American Gods<\/cite><\/a> can win&#8212;<cite>Paladin<\/cite> is at least as rigorous a working-out of theology, and in my opinion a better book too. I really liked <cite>Paladin<\/cite>, but the problem was that it didn&#8217;t blow me away the way <cite>A Deepness in the Sky<\/cite> (the 2000 winner) did, which appears to be my subconscious standard for what a Hugo winner ought to be like. So I held my decision in reserve and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/07\/wilson_robert_c.php\"><cite>Blind Lake<\/cite><\/a> last of all the nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally part of one post discussing the 2004 Hugo Nominees for Novel, broken up for MT import; see that post for comments] And so my last two votes are between Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s Paladin of Souls and Robert Charles Wilson&#8217;s Blind Lake. This was a tough decision, actually. I&#8217;ve previously logged Paladin, so I&#8217;ll just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/07\/bujold_lois_mcm_7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bujold, Lois McMaster: (202) Paladin of Souls (as part of the 2004 Hugo Nominees for Novel)&#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":[119,48,53,15],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2004-hugo-campbell-nominees","category-books","category-chalion-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-bujold-lois-mcmaster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}