{"id":2803,"date":"2009-08-14T07:20:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2009-08-12T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T14:42:22","slug":"the-clockwork-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"The Clockwork Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Cherie Priest has written several stories set in the same alternate history\/steampunkish milieu, including novels <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boneshaker-Cherie-Priest\/dp\/0765318415\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1250087187&#038;sr=8-1\">Boneshaker<\/a> (due out in October) and <i>Dreadnought<\/i> (due in Fall of 2010).  She&#8217;s put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/theclockworkcentury.com\/\">site<\/a> devoted to the stories&#8217; shared world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, it is 1880 (or thereabouts). The Civil War is still underway, drawn out by English interference, a different transportation infrastructure, and a powerful Republic of Texas that discovered oil at Spindletop some fifty years sooner than real life allowed.<\/p>\n<p>The competition of war has led to technological progress and horrors unimaginable, and many people have fled the combating states, hoping for an easier life out west.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them have found it.<br \/>\nSome of have found something else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The site is new and a bit sparse, but it looks like it&#8217;ll be a lot of fun.  I like her disquisition on Steampunk, <a href=\"http:\/\/theclockworkcentury.com\/?p=165\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Cherie Priest has written several stories set in the same alternate history\/steampunkish milieu, including novels Boneshaker (due out in October) and Dreadnought (due in Fall of 2010). She&#8217;s put together a site devoted to the stories&#8217; shared world. Here, it is 1880 (or thereabouts). The Civil War is still underway, drawn out by English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}