{"id":52787,"date":"2026-04-23T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52787"},"modified":"2026-04-26T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T19:56:11","slug":"usurpation-by-sue-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2026\/04\/23\/usurpation-by-sue-burke\/","title":{"rendered":"Usurpation by Sue Burke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book 13 of 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/76521348-39a8-402d-a7e7-1a0d2e77c2f0\"><cite>Usurpration<\/cite> by Sue Burke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f: The last book in a trilogy, and does a good job of wrapping things up\u2026or at least coming to an end, as in-world, the story is far from done. I don\u2019t remember how I discovered the first book in the series, I\u2019m glad I did. A fascinating non-human intelligence, and lots of themes of empathy and caring.<\/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\/2026\/04\/IMG_5959.jpeg\" alt=\"Me holding Usurpation\" title=\"IMG_5959.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:17243,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/76521348-39a8-402d-a7e7-1a0d2e77c2f0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260426195741\\\/https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/76521348-39a8-402d-a7e7-1a0d2e77c2f0&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 20:24:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 21:43:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-04 05:05:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-11 06:43:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-19 22:10:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-24 14:54:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-29 05:05:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-05 22:43:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-15 14:50:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-08 02:57:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-08 02:57:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book 13 of 2026: <cite>Usurpration<\/cite> by Sue Burke. \u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f\u2b50\ufe0f<\/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":[5685,5684],"class_list":["post-52787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-semiosis","tag-sue-burke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787","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=52787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52790,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787\/revisions\/52790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}