{"id":496,"date":"2013-03-19T10:03:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/?page_id=496"},"modified":"2021-09-17T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:55:17","slug":"my-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/my-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My stories\u00a0are now numerous, and you&#8217;ll find them here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/novels\/\">Gryphon Clerks<\/a>, lightly steampunked\/magepunk secondary-world fantasy series; technology-driven social change, seen through the eyes of a diverse and good-hearted cast (<a href=\"\/wiki\/index\">wiki is here<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/aucklandallies\">Auckland Allies<\/a>,\u00a0contemporary urban fantasy series; a team of underpowered practitioners use magic, technology, and the occasional con job to defend their city from takeover by sinister opponents;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/trickster\">Hand of the Trickster<\/a>,\u00a0sword-and-sorcery series; Leverage meets Lankhmar as a Robin Hood-like hero and his heist crew\u00a0take on\u00a0a corrupt empire of gods and magic;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\">City of Masks<\/a>,\u00a0standalone fantasy of manners\/mystery; in a city where appearance is reality, a naive, well-meaning diplomat and his radical servant set out to solve a series of murders and prevent an assassination;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/short-stories\/\">Short Stories<\/a>,\u00a0widely varied, from fantastical post-Zelaznian worlds of wonder to nearish-future SF based on technology being worked on\u00a0today; my stories have\u00a0appeared in a number of professional and semi-professional magazines and anthologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/samples\/\">samples<\/a> of the above on this site. There are also some <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/translations\/\">translations<\/a> available into other languages.<\/p>\n<p>The common factors between most of my stories are adventure; humour; characters of noble intent struggling against the odds (I&#8217;m part of the &#8220;noblebright&#8221; fantasy movement, explicitly the opposite of &#8220;grimdark&#8221;); and no-nonsense, capable women collaborating with men who respect them.<\/p>\n<h3>Other People&#8217;s Books<\/h3>\n<p>I used to maintain a directory of <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/indie-books-worth-reading\/\">other indie books worth reading<\/a>; I haven&#8217;t updated it in a while, and these days indie and trad books are not as different for the reader as they used to be. More recently, I&#8217;ve been doing <a href=\"http:\/\/mikerm.blogspot.com\/p\/annual-best-of-year-roundups.html\">annual roundups of the best books I read<\/a> (from all sources) in the year just gone, with links to my Goodreads reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My stories\u00a0are now numerous, and you&#8217;ll find them here: Gryphon Clerks, lightly steampunked\/magepunk secondary-world fantasy series; technology-driven social change, seen through the eyes of a diverse and good-hearted cast (wiki is here); Auckland Allies,\u00a0contemporary urban fantasy series; a team of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/my-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/496\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/gryphonclerks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}