{"id":593,"date":"2008-04-03T21:32:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=593"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:17:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:17:57","slug":"kagan_hellspark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/04\/kagan_hellspark\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagan, Janet: <cite>Hellspark<\/cite> (re-read)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/2008\/03\/author-janet-kagan-dies.html\">In memory of Janet Kagan<\/a>, I quickly re-read <strong><cite>Hellspark<\/cite><\/strong> recently. I liked it better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/08\/kagan_janet_hel.php\">the first time I read it<\/a>, perhaps because I&#8217;ve been very much in the mood for books about the joys of figuring things out. I wouldn&#8217;t say that this was as good as <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/category\/genre\/sf-and-fantasy\/steerswoman\/\">the Steerswoman series<\/a>, but it scratches a lot of the same itch.<\/p>\n<p>The book is juggling more threads than I remembered, and as a result the pacing is occasionally odd. But the characters (and, I admit, being in quick-read mode) pulled me through. And I was delighted to serendipitously discover the existence of Earth languages in which the evidentiary basis of a statement is an intrinsic part of the grammar&mdash;instead of reducing my admiration at Kagan&#8217;s invention, it just increases my overall sense-of-wonder. Language is so <em>cool<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In memory of Janet Kagan, I quickly re-read Hellspark recently. I liked it better than the first time I read it, perhaps because I&#8217;ve been very much in the mood for books about the joys of figuring things out. I wouldn&#8217;t say that this was as good as the Steerswoman series, but it scratches a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/04\/kagan_hellspark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kagan, Janet: <cite>Hellspark<\/cite> (re-read)&#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":[48,15],"tags":[260],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-kagan-janet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}