{"id":3065,"date":"2023-03-31T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-naomi-noviks-scholomance-trilogy-29-mar-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T21:18:18","slug":"pluralistic-naomi-noviks-scholomance-trilogy-29-mar-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/pluralistic-naomi-noviks-scholomance-trilogy-29-mar-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralistic: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy (29 Mar 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy (permalink) The Scholomance trilogy is Naomi Novik’s take on a “school for wizardry”: It. Is. Superb. Novik takes a belt-sander to all the crumbling tropes left by lesser writers to reveal fresh wood beneath, fashioning something breathtakingly new: https:\/\/www.naominovik.com\/category\/scholomance\/ Here’s the premise: the wizards of the world live in constant peril from malificaria – the magic monsters that prey on those born with magic, especially the children. In a state of nature, only one in ten wizard kids reaches adulthood. So the wizarding world built the Scholomance, a fully automated magical secondary school that exists in the void – a dimension beyond our world. The Scholomance is also an extremely dangerous place – three quarters of the wizard children who attend will die before graduation – but it is much safer than life on the outside. The Scholomance’s builders all hail from “enclaves” – magical palaces that have also been built in the void – and the enclave kids are the elites of the school, just as their parents are the elites of the world. Outside the scholomance, every “indie” wizard dreams of a place in an enclave, where they and their children might find a modicum of safety. Inside the school, the indie kids suck up to the enclavers…Pluralistic: Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy (29 Mar 2023)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s links Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy: When Rousseau comes to Hobbeswarts. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming\/recent… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[815,739,300,813,814,818,811,817,12,816,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}