{"id":38129,"date":"2020-07-02T06:30:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38129"},"modified":"2020-07-03T22:17:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T10:17:56","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-now-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-6-gideon-the-ninth-by-tamsyn-muir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/on-supernatural-underground-now-worldbuilding-in-fantasy-6-gideon-the-ninth-by-tamsyn-muir\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground Now: Worldbuilding in Fantasy #6 — “Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This year on\u00a0Supernatural Underground<\/a> I\u2019m celebrating the wide, wild, and wondrous worlds—and worldbuilding skill—of Fantasy literature. Why? Because worldbuilding, imho, is the vital glue that binds the different strands of the genre together: that’s why!<\/p>\n

And also because, quite simply, fantasy worldbuilding is So Much FUN. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

This month, I’m featuring a very new Fantasy world, but one that’s already generating a lot of positive attention, with Award-nominations galore. Including, as I announced here on Monday<\/a>, the Locus Award 2020 for First Novel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Awesome, huh?! And<\/em> it’s by a homegrown author — yep, I’m talking about Gideon the Ninth<\/strong> <\/em>by New Zealand writer, Tamsyn Muir.<\/p>\n

Year of Worldbuilding in Fantasy #6 — “Gideon the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir<\/a><\/h3>\n

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To give you the flavour, this is space fantasy with a pervading atmosphere of shadow and decay, along with plenty of necromancers & skeletons, duels and dungeon crawls and sorcerous rivalry, as well as featuring a lesbian love triangle at its heart.<\/p>\n

#YoW YearOfWorldbuilding\r\n#WiF WorldbuildingInFantasy<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This year on\u00a0Supernatural Underground I\u2019m celebrating the wide, wild, and wondrous worlds—and worldbuilding skill—of Fantasy literature. Why? Because worldbuilding, imho, is the vital glue that binds the different strands of the genre together: that’s why! And also because, quite simply, fantasy worldbuilding is So Much FUN. \ud83d\ude00 This month, I’m featuring a very new Fantasy […]<\/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-38129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38129","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=38129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38199,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38129\/revisions\/38199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}