{"id":52616,"date":"2025-12-20T16:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52616"},"modified":"2025-12-20T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:19:48","slug":"space-oddity-by-catherynne-m-valente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/12\/20\/space-oddity-by-catherynne-m-valente\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:178,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/ae10ed86-3ba7-4097-a0b7-3e730b20899f&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260216101500\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/ae10ed86-3ba7-4097-a0b7-3e730b20899f&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 03:29:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 04:40:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 14:36:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:56:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:56:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Book 61 of 2025: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/ae10ed86-3ba7-4097-a0b7-3e730b20899f\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So much of this made me laugh, and it all wrapped up in an extremely satisfying way. Valente is a hilarious writer (the \u201cDouglas Adams on a sugar high\u201d quote on the book cover is spot on); my only disappointment (and it\u2019s not with the book) is that I was busy  enough at last spring\u2019s Norwescon where she was a guest of honor that I barely crossed paths with her and didn\u2019t get to say how much I enjoy her work.<\/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\/12\/IMG_5496.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Space Oddity\" title=\"IMG_5496.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#x1f4da; 61\/2025: &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;: So much of this made me laugh, and it all wrapped up in an extremely satisfying way.<\/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":[2962,6853],"class_list":["post-52616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-catherynne-m-valente","tag-space-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616","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=52616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52619,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions\/52619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}