{"id":41,"date":"2003-08-28T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=41"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"partners-in-necessity-by-sharon-lee-and-steve-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/partners-in-necessity-by-sharon-lee-and-steve-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Partners in Necessity, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book (well, technically, books &#8211; this is an omnibus edition of Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem) had been lurking at the top of my recommendations list at Amazon for months before I finally decided to give it a shot (mostly because I&#8217;d received an Amazon gift certificate for filling out some survey or something online so I could buy it for half price).  It was compared to the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, which I adore, so I was curious whether it would live up to the hype.  And I&#8217;m happy to say that it does.  The universe is interesting, and the characters are compelling.  One thing I like a lot is that Lee and Miller don&#8217;t explicitly explain the universe.  They&#8217;ve clearly planned it out and its details, but instead of telling us what&#8217;s going on, they show us through the interaction of the characters and offhand remarks.  It&#8217;s a lesson many authors need to learn.  I&#8217;m definitely going to buy the rest of the books in the series when I get the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book (well, technically, books &#8211; this is an omnibus edition of Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem) had been lurking at the top of my recommendations list at Amazon for months before I finally decided to give it a shot (mostly because I&#8217;d received an Amazon gift certificate for filling out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}