{"id":36710,"date":"2019-06-03T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36710"},"modified":"2019-06-16T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T02:24:01","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-4-guy-gavriel-kays-under-heaven-when-your-ship-doesnt-sail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/on-supernatural-underground-now-year-of-romance-in-fantasy-4-guy-gavriel-kays-under-heaven-when-your-ship-doesnt-sail\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now: Year Of Romance In Fantasy #4 \u2014 Guy Gavriel Kay\u2019s \u201cUnder Heaven\u201d &#038; When Your Ship Doesn\u2019t Sail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-28238\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Just to recap, I have dedicated 2019 as my Year of Romance (#YOR) on the Supernatural Underground, specifically Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF). Because as I indicated last month, Fantasy is how I roll. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I began in March with <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/03\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-lord-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JRR Tolkien\u2019s <em>The Lord Of The Rings<\/em><\/a> (aka when romance is missing-in-action), continuing in April with <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-my-enemy-my.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laini Taylor\u2019s <em>Daughter of Smoke and Bone<\/em><\/a>, which is romance of the kind I categorize as \u201cmy enemy, my love.\u201d Last month, I featured <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/05\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-constancy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patricia McKillip\u2019s <em>Riddlemaster<\/em> series<\/a>, with the additional tagline of \u201cConstancy Amid Tumult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On 1 June, I featured\u00a0Guy Gavriel Kay\u2019s <em>Under Heaven &#8212;<\/em> in particular\u00a0Li-Mei &amp; Meshag\u2019s tale with the subsidiary tagline\u00a0\u2018When Your Ship Doesn\u2019t Sail\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6521\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UnderHeaven-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UnderHeaven-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UnderHeaven-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UnderHeaven-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/UnderHeaven.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Also known as: When The Stars Don\u2019t Align, aka It Could Never Be \u2013 but to find out more, rock on over to Supernatural Underground and check out the post in full: \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-guy-gavriel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Guy Gavriel Kay\u2019s <em>Under Heaven<\/em>: Li-Mei &amp; Meshag\u2019s Tale <em>or<\/em> \u2018When Your Ship Doesn\u2019t Sail\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to recap, I have dedicated 2019 as my Year of Romance (#YOR) on the Supernatural Underground, specifically Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#RIFF). Because as I indicated last month, Fantasy is how I roll. \ud83d\ude00 I began in March with JRR Tolkien\u2019s The Lord Of The Rings (aka when romance is missing-in-action), continuing in April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36759,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710\/revisions\/36759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}