{"id":42907,"date":"2025-03-03T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42907"},"modified":"2025-03-02T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T07:09:30","slug":"on-supernatural-underground-great-leaders-in-speculative-fiction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/on-supernatural-underground-great-leaders-in-speculative-fiction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On Supernatural Underground — Great Leaders In Speculative Fiction #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s March — and you know what that mean! Yesss indeed, preciousss, time for a Supernatural Underground<\/a> post.<\/p>\n

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In this case, it’s Instalment #2 of my 2025 post series on Great Leaders In Speculative Fiction, subtitled ‘Where to Find \u2018Em and Why They Rock.’<\/p>\n

So I’ve rocked on up with Brandon Sanderson’s<\/a> Stormlight Archive<\/strong>, and — because I couldn’t pick between ’em for leadership chops — both<\/em> Dalinar Kholin and Kaladin Stormblessed.<\/p>\n

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Stormlight #1<\/p><\/div>\n

Do I have a favorite? Well, although I heart both of them as characters, I kinda do — but see if you can pick it from the post. I’m open to comments letting me know your take and the reasons why. (I’ll even confirm ahead of next month’s post, if there’re any takers. \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

Now you’re keen to read and decide, here’s the link:<\/p>\n

Great Leaders In Speculative Fiction #2: Kaladin, Dalinar, & “The Stormlight Archive”<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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Stormlight #5<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s March — and you know what that mean! Yesss indeed, preciousss, time for a Supernatural Underground post. In this case, it’s Instalment #2 of my 2025 post series on Great Leaders In Speculative Fiction, subtitled ‘Where to Find \u2018Em and Why They Rock.’ So I’ve rocked on up with Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, and […]<\/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-42907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907","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=42907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42910,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907\/revisions\/42910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}