{"id":5319,"date":"2013-05-16T20:38:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2013-05-16T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:38:44","slug":"the-wardogs-coin-by-vox-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5319","title":{"rendered":"The Wardog's Coin, by Vox Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because I enjoyed Throne of Bones<\/i>, <\/strong>Vox Day was kind enough to send me a copy of his new release, The Wardog\u2019s Coin<\/a><\/i>, which consists of two shorter stories set in the same universe.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed them both, in different ways. The title story is more immediately accessible, being (so far as I can tell \u2013 I may have missed some subtext) a pretty straight war story about human mercenaries fighting an army of goblins and orcs for an elven king. It\u2019s a rousing and tragic tale of men and war.<\/p>\n

The second story, \u201cQalabi Dawn,\u201d is more challenging but interesting on a couple of levels. It\u2019s the story of a desert race of rational creatures who seem to be a cross between humans and big cats. A ruthless ruler conquers all the prides in order to defend his race as a whole from human aggression. Aside from offering a kind of metaphor for the place of Islam in the world, this story deals very successfully with a challenge I\u2019ve tried to tackle myself in the past, with (I fear) debatable success \u2013 the conception and communication of a wholly alien ethos, imagining what creatures who really thought differently from us might be like. <\/p>\n

Well done. Recommended.
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Because I enjoyed Throne of Bones, Vox Day was kind enough to send me a copy of his new release, The Wardog\u2019s Coin, which consists of two shorter stories set in the same universe. I enjoyed them both, in different ways. The title story is more immediately accessible, being (so far as I can tell … Continue reading The Wardog's Coin, by Vox Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}