{"id":3935,"date":"2017-08-07T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T21:41:23","slug":"good-recent-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/good-recent-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Good recent books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Daniel Abraham&#8217;s series,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8752885-the-dragon-s-path\">The Dagger and the Coin<\/a><\/em>. Excellent stuff from the author of <em>The Long Price Quartet<\/em>. Both have excellent world-building; it&#8217;s fantasy that owes almost nothing to Tolkien, which is always refreshing. This one&#8217;s particularly fascinating, because it looks at the effects of economic innovation in a largely pre-technological world (very roughly medieval-era). Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Daniel Abraham&#8217;s series,\u00a0The Dagger and the Coin. Excellent stuff from the author of The Long Price Quartet. Both have excellent world-building; it&#8217;s fantasy that owes almost nothing to Tolkien, which is always refreshing. This one&#8217;s particularly fascinating, because it looks at the effects of economic innovation in a largely pre-technological world (very roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-11t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}