{"id":5412,"date":"2011-05-16T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2011-05-13T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T10:51:24","slug":"just-arrived-nk-jemisins-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms-mira-grants-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/just-arrived-nk-jemisins-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms-mira-grants-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Arrived: NK Jemisin&#8217;s &#8220;The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms&#8221; &#038; Mira Grant&#8217;s &#8220;Feed&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5416\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/just-arrived-nk-jemisins-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms-mira-grants-feed\/hundred-thousand-kingdoms\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5416\" title=\"Hundred-Thousand-Kingdoms\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hundred-Thousand-Kingdoms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hundred-Thousand-Kingdoms.jpg 195w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Hundred-Thousand-Kingdoms-97x150.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>A while back I posted that it&#8217;s currently &#8220;reading for the\u00a0 Hugo Awards&#8221; time again&#8212;and today the first of my two books &#8216;to be read&#8217; arrived at more door (literally: because they wouldn&#8217;t fit in the letterbox the postman hand delivered them to the door.:) )<\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from the title, they&#8217;re NK Jemisin&#8217;s <em><strong>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/strong><\/em> (which is up for just about everything this year: a Hugo Award, a Gemmell Award, a Locus Award&#8211;and there&#8217;s probably more!) and Mira Grant&#8217;s <em><strong>Feed<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Mira Grant is a nom de plume for Seanan Maguire, who won the <strong>John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer<\/strong> last year.<\/p>\n<p>I am very much looking forward to reading both these books, as well as the other Hugo Award nominees&#8212;although I am not quite sure when I am going to get to <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5417\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/just-arrived-nk-jemisins-the-hundred-thousand-kingdoms-mira-grants-feed\/feed-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5417\" title=\"Feed\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Feed-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Feed-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Feed-92x150.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a>them while the Great Revision is ongoing. But they&#8217;re here and on the TBR table: that&#8217;s got to be a great start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I posted that it&#8217;s currently &#8220;reading for the\u00a0 Hugo Awards&#8221; time again&#8212;and today the first of my two books &#8216;to be read&#8217; arrived at more door (literally: because they wouldn&#8217;t fit in the letterbox the postman hand delivered them to the door.:) ) As you can tell from the title, they&#8217;re NK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justarrived","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412","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=5412"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5412\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}