{"id":594,"date":"2008-04-03T21:54:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=594"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:17:50","slug":"williams_maijstral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/04\/williams_maijstral\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams, Walter Jon: <cite>Crown Jewels, The; House of Shards; Rock of Ages<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick re-read, <strong>Walter Jon Williams&#8217; Drake Maijstral trilogy<\/strong>: <cite>The Crown Jewels<\/cite>, <cite>House of Shards<\/cite>, and <cite>Rock of Ages<\/cite>. These are sf caper novels, whose setup I briefly described in my <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/reviews\/houseshards.html\">review<\/a> of <cite>House of Shards<\/cite>. I still like that book the best, possibly because I read it first. On the other hand, I don&#8217;t find the first book&#8217;s climax very interesting, and the third book&#8217;s treatment of gender makes me a little twitchy. Despite that, however, the series served admirably as light fast re-reading on a cranky weekend.<\/p>\n<p>These were also collected in a SFBC omnibus, <cite>Ten Points for Style<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick re-read, Walter Jon Williams&#8217; Drake Maijstral trilogy: The Crown Jewels, House of Shards, and Rock of Ages. These are sf caper novels, whose setup I briefly described in my review of House of Shards. I still like that book the best, possibly because I read it first. On the other hand, I don&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/04\/williams_maijstral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Williams, Walter Jon: <cite>Crown Jewels, The; House of Shards; Rock of Ages<\/cite>&#8220;<\/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":[440],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-williams-walter-jon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}