{"id":614,"date":"2008-07-01T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=614"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:35:25","slug":"baker_05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/07\/baker_05\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker, Kage: (05) <cite>The Life of the World to Come<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure that there is anything objectively wrong <strong><cite>The Life of the World to Come<\/cite>, the fifth book in Kage Baker&#8217;s Company series<\/strong>, but it left me rather grumpy all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that at the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/06\/baker_04.php\">the fourth book<\/a>, before I took a detour off into short stories, I was thrilled at the plot-full nature of the book. Stuff happening! Cliffhanger! And this book opens with a return to Mendoza&#8217;s narration, in which exciting things happen&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. and then almost all the rest of the book is backstory.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good backstory, that of Alec Checkerfield, and it leads up to some affecting and interestingly weird stuff; but still, not much motion on the overall plot. And the next book is a fixup, so I don&#8217;t expect much out of <em>that<\/em>, either. Grump.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I would really like someone in-story to test the assertion that recorded history can&#8217;t be changed, because it would affect my opinion of some of the moral calculations. (Don&#8217;t tell me if I&#8217;m going to get it.) But then, I&#8217;m on record as having difficulty with time travel stories anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure that there is anything objectively wrong The Life of the World to Come, the fifth book in Kage Baker&#8217;s Company series, but it left me rather grumpy all the same. Recall that at the end of the fourth book, before I took a detour off into short stories, I was thrilled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/07\/baker_05\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baker, Kage: (05) <cite>The Life of the World to Come<\/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":[48,56,15],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-company-the","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-baker-kage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","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=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}