{"id":51952,"date":"2025-03-15T19:26:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T02:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=51952"},"modified":"2025-08-24T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:27:11","slug":"space-opera-by-catherynne-m-valente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/03\/15\/space-opera-by-catherynne-m-valente\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 16 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/b09356cd-7c51-4c73-a2be-1a07d0450c97\"><em>Space Opera<\/em><\/a> by Catherynne M. Valente: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>A hilarious Eurovision-in-space with humanity&#8217;s very existence at stake. I love Valente&#8217;s near stream-of-consciousness style and descriptions that draw very well deserved comparisons to Douglas Adams. Great, and I&#8217;m both looking forward to reading the recently released sequel and seeing Valente at Norwescon in a month.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_3935.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Space Opera\" title=\"IMG_3935.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 16\/2025: I love Valente&#8217;s near stream-of-consciousness style and descriptions that draw very well deserved comparisons to Douglas Adams. &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[2962,6853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51952"}],"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=51952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}