{"id":104,"date":"2011-08-15T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-09-22T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T15:33:24","slug":"what-i-learned-from-embassytown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"What I Learned from Embassytown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man.\u00a0 I finished up<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/Titles\/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&amp;BookID=425113\"><em> Embassytown<\/em><\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/buffalo.lib.overdrive.com\/8BB8AC11-E794-4EC0-A7D0-F5DC835450D1\/10\/400\/en\/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9AEA726F-6819-4770-8C5D-F2F9BEA9D4D3\">audiobook <\/a>last week, and if I hear the word \u201clanguage\u201d one more time I\u2019m gonna stab someone. I don\u2019t care how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0240267\/\">sexy british<\/a> her voice is.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not true. I do care.<\/p>\n<p>A few tid-bits that stick with me:<\/p>\n<p>A good sci-fi universe envisions <strong>the end-results of many technologies<\/strong>, not just one. Aliens from whom speech and consciousness are the same. Aliens whose technology is all biological. Almost-sentient robots. A human diaspora via an adjacent dimension, and what happens when they get to the end of space.<\/p>\n<p>Give the reader some<strong> new vocab<\/strong>, and make it awesome. Read: <a href=\"http:\/\/b-a-start.tumblr.com\/post\/8644113264\/floak\">floaking<\/a>. immer. exot.<\/p>\n<p>Build that world through <strong>the eyes of your character<\/strong>. We\u2019ll catch up. And if some aspect of the place\u2019s history doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the characters or the plot, who cares about it anyway?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Embassytown was very satisfying read\/listen,\u00a0 and a big influence on my trying out the whole first person thing in my latest.<\/p>\n<p>Also,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duranduran.com\/bookclub\/\"> Simon LeBon likes it<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh man.\u00a0 I finished up Embassytown on audiobook last week, and if I hear the word \u201clanguage\u201d one more time I\u2019m gonna stab someone. I don\u2019t care how sexy british her voice is. That\u2019s not true. I do care. A few tid-bits that stick with me: A good sci-fi universe envisions the end-results of many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}