{"id":1030,"date":"2007-08-08T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/08\/08\/tough-guides-to-fantasyland-and-the-known-galaxy\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T16:10:11","slug":"tough-guides-to-fantasyland-and-the-known-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Tough Guides to Fantasyland and the Known Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known about Diana Wynne Jones&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tough-Guide-Fantasyland-Essential-Fantasy\/dp\/0142407224\/\"><i>The Tough Guide to Fantasyland<\/i><\/a> for a while now. The book is a fabulous tour through the clich&eacute;s of fantasy novels, from Eternal Quests to Dark Lords to Magic Swords. It&#8217;s written in the form of a tour guide, with the reader taking on the role of tourist to a strange new land.<\/p>\n<p>What I <i>hadn&#8217;t<\/i> seen was <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworld.compuserve.com\/homepages\/lyonesse\/spaceguide.htm\">The Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy<\/a>. It&#8217;s focused on SF tropes, from The Fall of the Empire to Libertarian Militarists. I can see this eating giant chunks of my spare time. When I have spare time, that is. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known about Diana Wynne Jones&#8217;s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland for a while now. The book is a fabulous tour through the clich&eacute;s of fantasy novels, from Eternal Quests to Dark Lords to Magic Swords. It&#8217;s written in the form of a tour guide, with the reader taking on the role of tourist to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1030\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tough Guides to Fantasyland and the Known Galaxy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}