{"id":2075,"date":"2015-08-19T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2015-08-19T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T07:06:09","slug":"review-elektrograd-rusted-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Review: Elektrograd: Rusted Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rusted Blood<\/em> is triumph of setting and tone from Warren Ellis. Ellis is a man of strangely eclectic tastes, even for a writer.\u00a0 The Elektrograd setting comes from a long standing fascination of his with architecture or an interesting brutalist bent.\u00a0 He&#8217;s done a brilliant job constructing a city of such architecture and reflecting its tastes into his characters.\u00a0 The result is a grim police procedural that you can&#8217;t take your eyes off.<\/p>\n<p>Rusted Blood is fairly short &#8211; a long short story or a short novella.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to swallow in one gulp, which enhanced its immersiveness for me.\u00a0 I think Ellis can sustain the effect for longer, but a short stay in this world was fine for me.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to spoil the mystery &#8211; though I didn&#8217;t find it to be even the third most interesting aspect of <em>Blood<\/em> &#8211; so I don&#8217;t have much more to say.\u00a0 This is an inexpensive, short, absorbing tale.\u00a0 Risk the two bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Strongly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rusted Blood is triumph of setting and tone from Warren Ellis. Ellis is a man of strangely eclectic tastes, even for a writer.\u00a0 The Elektrograd setting comes from a long standing fascination of his with architecture or an interesting brutalist bent.\u00a0 He&#8217;s done a brilliant job constructing a city of such architecture and reflecting its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}