{"id":605,"date":"2008-05-17T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=605"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:12:54","slug":"kirstein_04spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/05\/kirstein_04spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirstein, Rosemary: (04) <cite>The Language of Power<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post contains <strong>book-destroying SPOILERS<\/strong> for <cite>The Language of Power<\/cite> (and the prior books in the Steerswoman series). Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/05\/kirstein_04.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>So, the sleep-deprived misunderstanding was in jumping from &#8220;four little fast-moving lights&#8221; to my recollection of watching the ISS go by overhead, and not remembering that the pictures were taken from a satellite, and therefore can&#8217;t be of anything in local orbit. It took Chad explaining it to me to realize that there&#8217;s <em>another<\/em> spaceship on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Which in another writer would make me fear deus ex machina type stuff, but now I just want to know when it&#8217;s going to get here&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t quite understand the effect it had on Kieran and Slado, though. I can imagine that Kieran maybe realized how the &#8220;wizards&#8221; would look to outsiders and decided to turn over a new leaf, but I can&#8217;t yet fathom why it would start Slado on a campaign of destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Also, while it was really lovely to see Will again, I would like the next book to not contain an apparently-friendly male character who turns out to have a hidden agenda, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post contains book-destroying SPOILERS for The Language of Power (and the prior books in the Steerswoman series). Here&#8217;s the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15,20],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-steerswoman","tag-kirstein-rosemary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}