{"id":1247,"date":"2011-04-06T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/06\/read-this-romance-nebulas\/"},"modified":"2011-04-06T12:19:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:19:15","slug":"read-this-romance-nebulas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/06\/read-this-romance-nebulas\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Romance at the Nebulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1246\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nebula-romance-covers.jpg\" alt=\"nebula-romance-covers.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Late last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/22\/read-this-old-timey-science-fantasy\/\">I mentioned<\/a> that I&#8217;d begun writing for <i>Heroes and Heartbrearkers<\/i>, a new site for romance fans from the same folks who brought you Tor.com. My first review for them was a look at M.K. Hobson&#8217;s <i>The Native Star<\/i>, one of this year&#8217;s nominees for the Best Novel Nebula&#8212;I&#8217;m continuing to read my way through the shortlist, and have posted two new reviews to the site, looking at the romance elements in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroesandheartbreakers.com\/blogs\/2011\/03\/nebula-romances-hundred-thousand-kingdoms\" target=\"_blank\">N.K. Jemisin&#8217;s <i>The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroesandheartbreakers.com\/blogs\/2011\/04\/nebula-romances-mary-robinette-kowals-shades-of-milk-and-honey\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Robinette Kowal&#8217;s <i>Shades of Milk and Honey<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons I&#8217;m interested in this year&#8217;s Nebula novel shortlist is that these three novels all incorporate romance elements to varying degrees into their fantasy narratives: In fact, what Hobson and Kowal have written are straight-up romances with fantasy elements; Jemisin&#8217;s novel borrows some plot dynamics from the erotic suspense genre, but the really fascinating thing about her novel is that it&#8217;s also structured very much like the family melodramas of classic private-eye novels (think MacDonald and Chandler rather than Spillane). I&#8217;m reading my way through some of the other nominees to see if they&#8217;re also working any romance angles, and I&#8217;ve got ideas for more <i>Heroes and Heartbreakers<\/i> articles down the line&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last month, I mentioned that I&#8217;d begun writing for Heroes and Heartbrearkers, a new site for romance fans from the same folks who brought you Tor.com. My first review for them was a look at M.K. Hobson&#8217;s The Native Star, one of this year&#8217;s nominees for the Best Novel Nebula&#8212;I&#8217;m continuing to read my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}