{"id":751,"date":"2005-02-01T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=751"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:50:35","slug":"the-anvil-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"The Anvil of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Anvil of the World<\/em> by Kage Baker<\/h3>\n<p>Of the 8 people who gathered to discuss this light,           humorous fantasy, 6 had started the book and 5 had           finished. Five people had read Baker before.<\/p>\n<p>The book is composed of three related novellas about a           retired assassin named Smith. In the first novella,           originally published in <em>Asimov&#8217;s<\/em> as &#8220;The Caravan           from Troon,&#8221; Smith leads a caravan across a           bandit-and-demon-infested wasteland<!--more--> and must deal with           murder, magic, and crazy characters. In the second           novella Smith becomes a hotelkeeper and in the last           novella he goes on a quest for the Key of Unmaking and           discovers his destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone enjoyed this first fantasy novel by Baker and           found it a nice change from her Company novels. Most of           the readers thought the first novella was the best,           with a great hook, but the last novella ended too           quickly. We wished there had been transitions between           the three novellas, or at least some indication that           one had ended and the next had started.<\/p>\n<p>Baker created such well-drawn characters that they           could be told apart even though many of them were named           Smith. The young part-demon lord (whom Baker developed           from Jethro Tull songs) and his demon nurse were           hilarious, especially the purgative treatment that           purged his tattoo. We look forward to more humor from           Baker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Sandy Kayser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker Of the 8 people who gathered to discuss this light, humorous fantasy, 6 had started the book and 5 had finished. Five people had read Baker before. The book is composed of three related novellas about a retired assassin named Smith. In the first novella, originally published [&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-751","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\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}