{"id":285,"date":"2007-05-24T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=285"},"modified":"2020-03-13T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:52:57","slug":"fantasy-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Gone Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6878\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/3bb2346e6b6b8be5972342b7267444341587343-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/3bb2346e6b6b8be5972342b7267444341587343-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/3bb2346e6b6b8be5972342b7267444341587343.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/>Yay, Christmas presents! I received <a title=\"Fantasy Gone Wrong edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Brittiany A. Koren, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Fantasy-Gone-Wrong-Martin-Greenberg\/dp\/0756403804\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a short story collection<\/a> whose common theme is the reversal of expectations in fantasy settings. Just to toss out an example, in one case a unicorn bonds itself to a prostitute, with substantial negative impact to her livelihood. Some of the stories work a lot better than others, though only a couple ended up being pretty bad. I&#8217;m not going to go into it story by story, and I&#8217;ve pretty much covered the book as a whole with that first sentence, so this is destined to be a short review. I will point out my favorites, though: The Hero of Killorglin, about fairies and their companion animals; The Murder of Mr. Wolf, fairy tale noir; Crumbs, about the generation succeeding Hansel and Gretel, and Goblin Lullaby, with an alternate perspective on <a title=\"As in the role-playing game term, Player Character; because, as it turns out, I might possibly be in some ways a bit of a geek. Try not to gasp too loudly, as people will wonder what's wrong.\">PC<\/a> adventuring. And for balance, don&#8217;t read Finder&#8217;s Keepers, as it was both rambling and (by the end) trite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay, Christmas presents! I received a short story collection whose common theme is the reversal of expectations in fantasy settings. Just to toss out an example, in one case a unicorn bonds itself to a prostitute, with substantial negative impact to her livelihood. Some of the stories work a lot better than others, though only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,219],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-fantasy","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6879,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/6879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}