{"id":826,"date":"2019-08-05T02:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?post_type=books&#038;p=826"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:42:52","slug":"weird-space-the-baba-yaga","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/?books=weird-space-the-baba-yaga","title":{"rendered":"Weird Space: the Baba Yaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The third compelling book in the <em><strong>Weird Space<\/strong><\/em> series&#8230;by Una McCormack and Eric Brown<\/h4>\n<p>The growing threat of the dimension-invading Weird has driven the Expansion government to outright paranoia. Mandatory telepathic testing is introduced, and the colony Braun\u2019s World \u2013 following reports of a new Weird portal opening \u2013 is destroyed from orbit, at an unimaginable cost in lives.<\/p>\n<p>Delia Walker, a senior analyst in the Expansion\u2019s intelligence bureau and a holdout of the pragmatic old guard, protests the oppressive new policies and is drummed out. Sure there\u2019s a better way, she charters the decrepit freighter the Baba Yaga and heads into the lawless \u201cSatan\u2019s Reach,\u201d following rumours of a world where humans and the Weird live peacefully side by side.<\/p>\n<p>Hunted by the Bureau, Walker, her pilot Yershov, and Failt \u2013 a Vetch child stowaway, fleeing slavery \u2013 will uncover secrets about both the Weird and the Expansion; secrets that could prevent catastrophic war&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third compelling book in the Weird Space series&#8230;by Una McCormack and Eric Brown The growing threat of the dimension-invading Weird has driven the Expansion government to outright paranoia. Mandatory telepathic testing is introduced, and the colony Braun\u2019s World \u2013 following reports of a new Weird portal opening \u2013 is destroyed from orbit, at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":828,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book-authors":[44],"book-series":[37],"book-tags":[48],"class_list":{"0":"post-826","1":"books","2":"type-books","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"book-authors-una-mccormack","7":"book-series-original-works","8":"book-tags-science-fiction","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-authors&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"book-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unamccormack.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-tags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}