{"id":648,"date":"2017-09-19T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2017-09-19T10:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:04:33","slug":"phandemonium-book-club-the-obelisk-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/phandemonium-book-club-the-obelisk-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Phandemonium Book Club &#8211; The Obelisk Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the November book club where we will be reading Hugo winning N.K. Jemisin&#8217;s <em>The Obelisk Gate<\/em><i>.\u00a0<\/i><strong>We will be at Windycon for this on Saturday, November 11th. Time TBD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Goodreads:<br \/>\n&#8220;<b>THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS&#8230; FOR THE LAST TIME.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster Tenring \u2013 madman, world-crusher, savior \u2013 has returned with a mission: to train his successor, Essun, and thus seal the fate of the Stillness forever.<\/p>\n<p>It continues with a lost daughter, found by the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>It continues with the obelisks, and an ancient mystery converging on answers at last.<\/p>\n<p>The Stillness is the wall which stands against the flow of tradition, the spark of hope long buried under the thickening ashfall. And it will not be broken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/26228034-the-obelisk-gate<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Obelisk-Gate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-649\" src=\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Obelisk-Gate-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Obelisk Gate book cover and picture of N.K. Jemisin\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Obelisk-Gate-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Obelisk-Gate-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Obelisk-Gate.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for the November book club where we will be reading Hugo winning N.K. Jemisin&#8217;s The Obelisk Gate.\u00a0We will be at Windycon for this on Saturday, November 11th. Time TBD. From Goodreads: &#8220;THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS&#8230; FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capricon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}