{"id":516,"date":"2018-01-17T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2019-09-14T23:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T23:40:16","slug":"literary-wonderlands-a-journey-through-the-greatest-fictional-worlds-ever-created-ed-laura-miller-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2018\/01\/literary-wonderlands-a-journey-through-the-greatest-fictional-worlds-ever-created-ed-laura-miller-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created<\/i> &#8211; ed. Laura Miller, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love books-about-books, classic fantasy illustrations, and Laura Miller, so this was perfect for me. It&#8217;s a two to four page spread on each of several dozen books, in the categories Ancient Myth &amp; Legend, Science and Romanticism, Golden Age of Fantasy, New World Order, and The Computer Age. There&#8217;s a brief essay on the book, first publication information (which is cool and not often mentioned), the original cover or a photo of the earliest tablet\/papyrus etc., a portrait of the author if applicable, and lots of supporting graphics&#8212;illustrations, art, maps, ephemera, etc. It&#8217;s a beautiful book. I&#8217;ve read most of the works mentioned, but there were several I&#8217;d never heard of and want to check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The City of the Sun<\/em> &#8211; Tommaso Campanella, 1602<\/li>\n<li><em>The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World<\/em> &#8211; Margaret Cavendish, 1666<\/li>\n<li><em>The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground<\/em> &#8211; Ludvig Holberg, 1741<\/li>\n<li><em>Alamut<\/em> &#8211; Vladimir Bartol, 1938<\/li>\n<li><em>Pedro Paramo<\/em> &#8211; Juan Rulfo, 1955<\/li>\n<li><em>W or the Memory of Childhood<\/em> &#8211; Georges Perec, 1975<\/li>\n<li><em>Egalia&#8217;s Daughters<\/em> &#8211; Gerd Brantenberg, 1977<\/li>\n<li><em>Obabakoak<\/em> &#8211; Bernardo Atxaga, 1988<\/li>\n<li><em>Wizard of the Crow<\/em> &#8211; <span data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiqhdKkst_YAhXGQ98KHa5yAHYQ2koInAEoAjAM\">Ng\u0169g\u0129 wa Thiong&#8217;o<\/span>, 2006<\/li>\n<li><em>The Man with the Compound Eyes<\/em> &#8211; Wu Ming-Yi, 2011<\/li>\n<li><em>The Imperial Radch Trilog<\/em>y &#8211; Ann Leckie, 2013-15<\/li>\n<li><em>Lagoon<\/em> &#8211; Nnedi Okarafor, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus reminding me of a bunch of authors\/books I haven&#8217;t yet read and want to, like China Mievelle, <em>Orlando Furioso<\/em>, <em>Cloud Atlas<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love books-about-books, classic fantasy illustrations, and Laura Miller, so this was perfect for me. It&#8217;s a two to four page spread on each of several dozen books, in the categories Ancient Myth &amp; Legend, Science and Romanticism, Golden Age of Fantasy, New World Order, and The Computer Age. There&#8217;s a brief essay on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}