{"id":37665,"date":"2020-04-02T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=37665"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T07:53:03","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-3-seanan-mcguires-ghost-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/04\/02\/on-supernatural-underground-now-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-3-seanan-mcguires-ghost-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now: Worldbuilding In Fantasy #3 &#8212; Seanan McGuire&#8217;s Ghost Roads"},"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\" \/>This year on <a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/year-of-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supernatural Underground<\/a> I\u2019m celebrating the wondrous and wonderful worldbuilding of Fantasy literature with a closer look at some of my favourite worlds.<\/p>\n<p>For April 1, I&#8217;ve honed in on contemporary paranormal fantasy very much set in <em>this<\/em> world with the worldbuilding tour-de-force that is Seanan McGuire&#8217;s <strong>Ghost Roads<\/strong> series, comprising <em>Sparrow Hill Road<\/em> and <em>The Girl In The Green Silk Gown<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you like ghost stories and Americana, urban fantasy and powerful worldbuilding then head on over to Supernatural Underground and read:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/year-of-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Year of Worldbuilding in Fantasy #3: &#8220;Sparrow Hill Road&#8221; (Ghost Roads #1) by Seanan McGuire<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36038\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sparrow-Hill-Road-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sparrow-Hill-Road-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sparrow-Hill-Road-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sparrow-Hill-Road.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37668\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Girl-in-the-Green-Silk-Gown-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Girl-in-the-Green-Silk-Gown-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Girl-in-the-Green-Silk-Gown-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/The-Girl-in-the-Green-Silk-Gown.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">#YoW YearOfWorldbuilding<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">#WiF WorldbuildingInFantasy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year on Supernatural Underground I\u2019m celebrating the wondrous and wonderful worldbuilding of Fantasy literature with a closer look at some of my favourite worlds. For April 1, I&#8217;ve honed in on contemporary paranormal fantasy very much set in this world with the worldbuilding tour-de-force that is Seanan McGuire&#8217;s Ghost Roads series, comprising Sparrow Hill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37665","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=37665"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37673,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37665\/revisions\/37673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}