{"id":11209,"date":"2024-03-03T03:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11209"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:13:33","slug":"lever-action-industrial-strength-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/lever-action-industrial-strength-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"LEVER ACTION &#038; INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH MAGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To my great surprise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CJKKMY26\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lever Action<\/a> turned out to be a perfectly normal fantasy\/mecha-infused western. Unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/RavensDagger\/e\/B08CSSCBNL\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RavensDagger<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/dead-tired-vigor-mortis\/\" title=\"DEAD TIRED &#038; Vigor Mortis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/all-i-got-is-this-stat-menu-magical-girl-crystal-genocide\/\" title=\"ALL I GOT IS THIS STAT MENU &#038; MAGICAL GIRL: CRYSTAL GENOCIDE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">books<\/a> I&#8217;ve read, there&#8217;s practically no comedy here and events are solidly grounded.<\/p>\n<p>I can see why some people might think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Macronomicon\/author\/B07FSFX2KZ\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macronomicon<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brandon_Sanderson\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Sanderson<\/a> alt; the massive output, the style of character banter, and technically-inclined world building all have parallels. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CTM92R81\">first Industrial Strength Magic novel<\/a> is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy action-comedy with some relatively subtle romance aspects that look to be developing into a polyamorous love triangle. Both the complex setting and occasionally caustic character interactions are particular stand-outs, and I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/57011\/industrial-strength-magic\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continuing the series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my great surprise Lever Action turned out to be a perfectly normal fantasy\/mecha-infused western. Unlike RavensDagger&#8216;s other books I&#8217;ve read, there&#8217;s practically no comedy here and events are solidly grounded. I can see why some people might think Macronomicon is a Brandon Sanderson alt; the massive output, the style of character banter, and technically-inclined world building all have parallels. Their first Industrial Strength Magic novel is a post-apocalyptic urban fantasy action-comedy with some relatively subtle romance aspects that look to be developing into a polyamorous love triangle. Both the complex setting and occasionally caustic character interactions are particular stand-outs, and I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to continuing the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,816,817,776,30],"class_list":["post-11209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-industrial-strength-magic","tag-macronomicon","tag-ravensdagger","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}