{"id":13429,"date":"2025-12-17T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:22:34","slug":"when-swords-fall-silent-interstellar-calamity-is-looming-and-all-i-got-is-this-stat-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/when-swords-fall-silent-interstellar-calamity-is-looming-and-all-i-got-is-this-stat-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN SWORDS FALL SILENT & INTERSTELLAR CALAMITY IS LOOMING AND ALL I GOT IS THIS STAT MENU"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been an extremely long time since I last read a genre anthology, and When Swords Fall Silent<\/a> handily reminded me of why that was; the quality varies wildly from story to story. Hell, most of the stories in here don’t even have an assassin as a protagonist while some barely even relate to the profession… and one’s connection to the theme only happens to be a single mention of the word. That some of them seem to be related to ongoing series (and thus leave a great many things unexplained) doesn’t help matters any and only results in an uncomfortable mess.<\/p>\n

The fifth<\/a> of J.J. Ackerknecht<\/a>‘s All I Got is This Stat Menu series<\/a> is pretty solid. If gives a nicely wider view of the Empire and Wardens, sheds some more light on the triggering events that led to the galaxy’s current state, and sets the stage to take a closer look at the Union as the presumably final battle against the Ninth Dominion’s forces looms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been an extremely long time since I last read a genre anthology, and When Swords Fall Silent handily reminded me of why that was; the quality varies wildly from story to story. Hell, most of the stories in here don’t even have an assassin as a protagonist while some barely even relate to the profession… and one’s connection to the theme only happens to be a single mention of the word. That some of them seem to be related to ongoing series (and thus leave a great many things unexplained) doesn’t help matters any and only results in an uncomfortable mess. The fifth of J.J. Ackerknecht‘s All I Got is This Stat Menu series is pretty solid. If gives a nicely wider view of the Empire and Wardens, sheds some more light on the triggering events that led to the galaxy’s current state, and sets the stage to take a closer look at the Union as the presumably final battle against the Ninth Dominion’s forces looms.<\/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":[809,1148,1260,1272,1270,28,808,1271,1269,1262,1265,1263,1267,1261,29,1264,1268,1266,62,1273],"class_list":["post-13429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-all-i-got-is-this-stat-menu","tag-andrew-rowe","tag-anthology","tag-bryce-oconnor","tag-david-dalglish","tag-fantasy","tag-j-j-ackerknecht","tag-ja-andrews","tag-jay-boyce","tag-jonathan-french","tag-luke-chmilenko","tag-m-l-wang","tag-marie-brennan","tag-michael-j-sullivan","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-peter-flannery","tag-philip-c-quaintrell","tag-rj-barker","tag-science-fiction","tag-terry-mancour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429","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=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}