{"id":25723,"date":"2022-02-19T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25723"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:23:42","slug":"far-from-the-light-of-heaven-by-tade-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/02\/19\/far-from-the-light-of-heaven-by-tade-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1353,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241103065607\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 12:53:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:13:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 10:28:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:18:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:18:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:18:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>12\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/c82d2368-4b48-462b-8e2c-39cddd43a721\" title=\"StoryGraph: Far From the Light of Heaven\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> Philip K. Dick Award Nominee<\/p>\n<p>A locked-room murder mystery in space, with mysterious AIs, interstellar politics, and somewhat mystic aliens. I really enjoyed Thompson\u2019s earlier Wormwood trilogy, and this absolutely holds up. His characters are fascinating and very real (even when artificial), and motivations are not always as clear cut as they might seem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25746\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Far From the Light of Heaven\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/D52571F8-5C05-4F07-90FA-24C804D08D90-1-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A locked-room murder mystery in space, with mysterious AIs, interstellar politics, and somewhat mystic aliens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4101,4115],"class_list":["post-25723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-philip-k-dick-award","tag-tade-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}