{"id":2472,"date":"2019-07-15T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2020-11-29T20:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T20:31:29","slug":"trail-of-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"Trail of Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Trail of Lightning<\/em> by Rebecca Roanhorse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Six members attended this meeting at the North Village Library. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic\u00a0American West. The protagonist, Maggie Hoskie, is a Native American monster hunter who has been tasked with finding a missing girl. The book won the Locus Award for First Novel (2019), was Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2018), and is a Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was generally liked by meeting attendees. No one regretted reading it, and most agreed they would recommend it to others. We particularly enjoyed the characters and the world-building, which was unlike what we are used to reading in the SF\/F genre. Some of us were bothered by errors in the science and some were bothered by &#8220;first-novel problems.&#8221; One person found the violence to be a bit much and skimmed those portions of the text.&nbsp; We are looking forward to seeing&nbsp;Rebecca Roanhorse as the Guest of Honor at ArmadilloCon 41 in a few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Additional comments from members who were unable to attend the meeting in person&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Actually,  I&#8217;ve been praising Rebecca Roanhorse to everyone who says they like science fiction, hate post-apocalypse, or love post-apocalypse, or are just sort of OK with science fiction!<\/li><li>I really liked <em>Trail of Lightning<\/em> by Rebecca Roanhorse. &nbsp;A long time ago I read one of those anthropology-type retellings of the Monster Slayer, so I felt at home in that one. &nbsp;I have started the next book, <em>Storm of Locusts<\/em>. &nbsp;The mythology is totally new to me. &nbsp;Roanhorse is putting ecology into her novels \u2014 what Moriba Jah [ArmadilloCon 41 Science Guest] is asking writers to do. &nbsp;I like the way she weaves it into the story very naturally.&nbsp; <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse Six members attended this meeting at the North Village Library. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic\u00a0American West. The protagonist, Maggie Hoskie, is a Native American monster hunter who has been tasked with finding a missing girl. The book won the Locus Award for First Novel (2019), was Nebula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}