{"id":49858,"date":"2023-09-05T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T03:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49858"},"modified":"2024-05-28T13:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:53:04","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-barrayar-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/09\/05\/%f0%9f%93%9a-barrayar-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1074,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/93427eb8-77be-442a-8dd3-e429b57fc2e6&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>46\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/93427eb8-77be-442a-8dd3-e429b57fc2e6\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1992 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>Really good continuation of the story from <em>Shards of Honor<\/em>, even beginning the day after the earlier book ended. Bujold manages to create fascinating, sometimes relatable, and often very flawed characters, and to craft a world that&#8217;s an interesting mix of almost medieval feudalism and future technology. For a series I didn&#8217;t know anything about and initially approached with a little skepticism, I&#8217;m definitely understanding why it got the awards and the good words it has from many of my friends.<\/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\/09\/lmb-b-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Barrayar\" title=\"lmb-b.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating, sometimes relatable, and often very flawed characters, and a world that&#8217;s an interesting mix of almost medieval feudalism and future technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2012,3313,5779,5780],"class_list":["post-49858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-lois-mcmaster-bujold","tag-vorkosigan-saga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49858","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=49858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51242,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49858\/revisions\/51242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}