{"id":750,"date":"2010-08-03T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/read-this-hard-magic\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T20:33:22","slug":"read-this-hard-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/03\/read-this-hard-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Hard Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image749\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hard-magic.jpg\" alt=\"hard-magic.jpg\" \/>Yesterday, Tor.com published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/an-interview-with-laura-anne-gilman\">an interview I did<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauraannegilman.net\/\">Laura Anne Gilman<\/a>, focused primarily on her latest novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0373803133\"><i>Hard Magic<\/i><\/a>. It&#8217;s the first book in a series called &#8220;Paranormal Scene Investigations,&#8221; about a young Talent (we don&#8217;t call them &#8220;witches&#8221;) who joins a new agency that&#8217;s looking to develop a form of forensic magic to solve crimes perpetrated by and against the supernatural community.<\/p>\n<p>So Bonnie Torres is plunged into an all-new work environment, forced to sort out the office dynamics even as the PSI team gets its first case&#8212;and as some within the &#8220;Cosa Nostradamus&#8221; (as the supernatural community of Laura Anne&#8217;s contemporary fantasy novels is called, springing off an earlier series of novels) make it abundantly clear they don&#8217;t want an independent agency poking into their affairs. Laura Anne moves the story at a brisk clip&#8212;this is a good place to start if you haven&#8217;t read her contemporaries before; even though the storyline runs concurrently to her <i>Retrievers<\/i> series, it does so in a way that requires no previous knowledge, and should even contain surprises for long-time fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Tor.com published an interview I did with Laura Anne Gilman, focused primarily on her latest novel, Hard Magic. It&#8217;s the first book in a series called &#8220;Paranormal Scene Investigations,&#8221; about a young Talent (we don&#8217;t call them &#8220;witches&#8221;) who joins a new agency that&#8217;s looking to develop a form of forensic magic to solve [&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\/750"}],"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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}