{"id":4117,"date":"2018-07-19T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2018-07-19T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T00:04:09","slug":"recent-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/recent-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hannu Rajamiemi,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/27272632-summerland\">Summerland<\/a><\/i>. From the author of\u00a0<i>The Quantum Thief<\/i>, but you&#8217;d never guess it by reading the book. It&#8217;s a classic British spy novel, but set in an alternate history. What if instead of just creating radio, the inventors of the early 20th century had discovered a way to communicate with the afterlife? And what if that afterlife were ripe for colonization? Fun read, and much quicker than Rajamiemi&#8217;s extremely dense earlier work.<\/p>\n<p>Claire North,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/35511975-84k\">84K<\/a><\/i>. North brings a literary voice to a dystopian novel about a possible future in which\u00a0<i>everything<\/i>\u00a0has been financialized and privatized, including crime and punishment. The fractured timeline makes for some lovely puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Stiefvater,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/38464776-opal\">The Raven Cycle<\/a><\/i>. I just reread this\u00a0top-notch YA fantasy quartet, because she&#8217;s just added a short novelette to the cycle, one which gives a direct view into the head of Opal, aka Orphan Girl. She&#8217;s apparently working on a new trilogy primarily about Ronan, and this makes a delicious apertif while we wait for it.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28589297-unsong\">Unsong<\/a><\/i>. The first novel from one of my favorite nonfiction bloggers (SlateStarCodex) is really entertaining, and describes an alternate America dominated by Qabalistic magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannu Rajamiemi,\u00a0Summerland. From the author of\u00a0The Quantum Thief, but you&#8217;d never guess it by reading the book. It&#8217;s a classic British spy novel, but set in an alternate history. What if instead of just creating radio, the inventors of the early 20th century had discovered a way to communicate with the afterlife? And what if [&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-4117","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-14p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","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=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4120,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}