{"id":11833,"date":"2009-01-26T23:24:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T07:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/01\/26\/11833.html"},"modified":"2009-01-26T23:24:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T07:24:01","slug":"this-weeks-sh-fiction-the-shan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/01\/26\/this-weeks-sh-fiction-the-shan\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s SH fiction: &#8220;The Shangri-La Affair&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week and this week at <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite>: A two-part story, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090119\/shangri_la-f.shtml\">The Shangri-La Affair<\/a>,\" by Lavie Tidhar, in which a nameless agent in a high-tech nearish future goes to Laos looking for--well, you'll have to read the story to find out.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[War] came spilling over Asia like grains of rice measured into a pan. Digital systems were corrupted. Tailor-made viruses swept through urban populations, spread out to villages, sometimes merely killing, sometimes transforming people into ... into other things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other SH material last week and this week includes:<\/p>\n<p>Poems by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090119\/fire-p.shtml\">Kaolin Imago Fire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090126\/hazelbower-p.shtml\">Martin Hazelbower<\/a>; a Brian Trent article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090119\/trent-a.shtml\">Greek and Chinese philosophy<\/a>; a Nicholas Seeley article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2009\/20090126\/seeley-a.shtml\">apocalypses<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\">reviews<\/a> of works by McKillip, Robson, M.M. Buckner, Gwyneth Jones, and (forthcoming later in the week) Stephen King and Ken Scholes.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week and this week at Strange Horizons: A two-part story, &#8220;The Shangri-La Affair,&#8221; by Lavie Tidhar, in which a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}