{"id":367,"date":"2013-05-28T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog-new\/?p=367"},"modified":"2024-04-28T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T15:15:30","slug":"the-red-plague-affair-bleeding-out-wages-future-tales-of-a-hired-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-red-plague-affair-bleeding-out-wages-future-tales-of-a-hired-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Red Plague Affair, Bleeding Out, & Wages: Future Tales of a Hired Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second book in the Bannon and Claire<\/a> series takes place several years after the first and has a lesser focus on sorcery. It’s a bit more investigative and much more reactionary, with the protagonists being less proactive and instead forced to adapt to unexpected situations.<\/p>\n

Bleeding Out<\/em> caps off Jes Battis<\/a>‘ OSI series (according to the foreword anyway). It starts out pretty standard for the series, gets brilliantly abstract in the eighth chapter… and then peters out into a Contact<\/a>-style ending that’s just aggravating on every level.<\/p>\n

Zack Parsons’ Wages: Future Tales of a Hired Gun<\/a> novella is a dystopian look into a possible future through the eyes of a mercenary. It is wonderfully, darkly comedic in all the ways things can and do go horribly, horribly wrong. If you like any of his earlier work, from Liminal States<\/em> to the extensive number of politically-themed articles written for Something Awful, then you cannot miss this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second book in the Bannon and Claire series takes place several years after the first and has a lesser focus on sorcery. It’s a bit more investigative and much more reactionary, with the protagonists being less proactive and instead forced to adapt to unexpected situations. Bleeding Out caps off Jes Battis‘ OSI series (according to the foreword anyway). It starts out pretty standard for the series, gets brilliantly abstract in the eighth chapter… and then peters out into a Contact-style ending that’s just aggravating on every level. Zack Parsons’ Wages: Future Tales of a Hired Gun novella is a dystopian look into a possible future through the eyes of a mercenary. It is wonderfully, darkly comedic in all the ways things can and do go horribly, horribly wrong. If you like any of his earlier work, from Liminal States to the extensive number of politically-themed articles written for Something Awful, then you cannot miss this.<\/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":[58,63,79,60,841,78,55,30,80],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-bannon-and-clare","tag-dystopia","tag-jes-battis","tag-lilith-saintcrow","tag-novella","tag-osi","tag-steampunk","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-zack-parsons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t