{"id":49269,"date":"2023-05-21T19:52:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T02:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49269"},"modified":"2023-05-21T19:52:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T02:52:18","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-apocalypse-girl-dreaming-by-jennifer-brozek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/21\/%f0%9f%93%9a-apocalypse-girl-dreaming-by-jennifer-brozek\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Apocalypse Girl Dreaming by Jennifer Brozek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1239,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/b8509ef3-331e-4654-80ad-f6f60c341a1b&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>27\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/b8509ef3-331e-4654-80ad-f6f60c341a1b\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A collection of short fiction, with a mix of urban fantasy, \u201cweird west\u201d (supernatural western), and science fiction. I\u2019ve enjoyed Brozek\u2019s work as an editor in the past, and picked this up from her at Norwescon to sample her work as an author. I enjoyed these, especially as several were interconnected\u2014generally not directly, but through being set in one or another of the worlds she\u2019s created in her longer works. Short stories are often a fun way to dip into a world, and having a few to sample from a few different worlds was a nice way to get a feel for them beyond what a single story can do. That said, my favorite was a stand-alone story set in Seattle, playing with the \u201cPigs on Parade\u201d statues that went up around the city in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jb_agd-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Apocalypse Girl Dreaming\" title=\"jb_agd.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite was a stand-alone story set in Seattle, playing with the &#8216;Pigs on Parade&#8217; statues that went up around the city in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[4060],"class_list":["post-49269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-jennifer-brozek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49269","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=49269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}