{"id":52081,"date":"2025-05-29T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52081"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:52:24","slug":"toward-the-night-by-james-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/05\/29\/toward-the-night-by-james-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward the Night by James Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:514,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/0331be68-f83e-4727-88d3-168f73c6c948&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250712184016\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/0331be68-f83e-4727-88d3-168f73c6c948&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 07:00:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 04:26:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 08:46:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 08:46:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 29 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/0331be68-f83e-4727-88d3-168f73c6c948\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t gotten an Ortegas-centric episode of the show yet, so it&#8217;s fun to get a bit more of a peek into her and her background through this adventure. A mysterious alien artifact, a dangerous planet, ornery Klingons\u2026all in all, quite the fun Trek adventure.<\/p>\n<p>(Very mild spoilers: The only flaw for me wasn&#8217;t actually a flaw with the book, but a happenstance of my reading: I&#8217;d just read the TOS ebook novella <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/05\/12\/miasma-by-greg-cox\/\"><em>Miasma<\/em><\/a>, so this made for two Trek stories in a row with a landing party trapped on a rainy, muddy planet being chased by swarms of hungry giant bugs while cut off from all communication with the Enterprise. I had to keep reminding myself it wasn&#8217;t quite as derivative as it seemed.)<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_4312.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Toward the Night\" title=\"IMG_4312.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 29\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: We haven&#8217;t gotten an Ortegas-centric episode of the show yet, so it&#8217;s fun to get a bit more of a peek into her and her background through this adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049,2047],"tags":[3184,4097],"class_list":["post-52081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","category-star-trek","tag-james-swallow","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52081","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=52081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52324,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52081\/revisions\/52324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}