{"id":1064,"date":"2012-10-30T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2012-10-30T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T17:41:25","slug":"winterstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Winterstrike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember me talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/pegasus.cityofveils.com\/\">Yoon Ha Lee<\/a>&#8216;s rad &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=975\">The Book of Locked Doors<\/a>&#8216;. Imagine my delight when I saw today&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/about.failbettergames.com\/2012\/10\/30\/a-winter-locked-city-cold-guns-starship-carcasses-and-now-you\/\"> announcement<\/a> from Failbetter Games:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yoon Ha Lee is great. She writes like the unacknowledged offspring of Elizabeth Hand and William Faulkner, and I\u2019ve liked her work since I read\u00a0<em>The Black Abacus<\/em>, a short story about love and death and ethics and an unfought war in space. I found out recently that she\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pegasus.cityofveils.com\/if.phtml\" target=\"_blank\">wrote interactive fiction too<\/a>. So I asked her to write something for StoryNexus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/winterstrike.storynexus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">She did, and we\u2019re launching it today.<\/a>\u00a0It\u2019s called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/winterstrike.storynexus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Winterstrike<\/a>, and it\u2019s rich and strange and very cold. And big. Play it, and learn about the the Ocular Guard and the insectines and the Woman with Tiger Guns\u2026 and the ironbird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy moley! Very excited to try this, but afraid I&#8217;ll be terribly jealous when comparing it with the one I&#8217;m developing. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s worth the risk!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember me talking about Yoon Ha Lee&#8216;s rad &#8216;The Book of Locked Doors&#8216;. Imagine my delight when I saw today&#8217;s announcement from Failbetter Games: Yoon Ha Lee is great. She writes like the unacknowledged offspring of Elizabeth Hand and William Faulkner, and I\u2019ve liked her work since I read\u00a0The Black Abacus, a short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive-fiction-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}