{"id":803,"date":"2014-05-26T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=803"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:33:41","slug":"gladstone_max_0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2014\/05\/gladstone_max_0\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladstone, Max: (01) <cite>Three Parts Dead<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><cite>Three Parts Dead<\/cite> is Max Gladstone&#8217;s first book<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a secondary-world fantasy that melds magic and law in a way that does not actually make me twitch as a lawyer, because it takes some of the trappings (courtrooms, big firms, soul-sucking educational experiences) and puts them to use for quite different purposes (document review through the imaginary autopsy of a god&#8217;s body, necromancy, stealing someone&#8217;s face), while still keeping useful big-picture themes in mind (the importance of persuasive storytelling, the mutability of Justice).   <\/p>\n<p>Plus it&#8217;s just fun. It has a high density of cool worldbuilding things, which I will refrain from enumerating partly because the fun is in the discovery and partly because this is really a post to see if I&#8217;ve successfully upgraded Movable Type two entire whole numbers (update: no! I hate computers!). I should note, however, that the first few chapters are a little rocky in terms of pace and exposition, and things smooth out once most of the characters meet up, so hang in there.  <\/p>\n<p>I also should note that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/threepartsdead\/MaxGladstone\">the cover<\/a> is accurate and the book is refreshingly filled with women and lacking in romance. And though the ending may be a smidge rushed, it has a number of good payoffs on the mystery, worldbuilding, and personal fronts. Definitely recommended.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Parts Dead is Max Gladstone&#8217;s first book. It&#8217;s a secondary-world fantasy that melds magic and law in a way that does not actually make me twitch as a lawyer, because it takes some of the trappings (courtrooms, big firms, soul-sucking educational experiences) and puts them to use for quite different purposes (document review through &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2014\/05\/gladstone_max_0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gladstone, Max: (01) <cite>Three Parts Dead<\/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":[122,48,57,15],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2014-hugo-nominees","category-books","category-craft-sequence-sf-and-fantasy","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-gladstone-max"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}