{"id":1826,"date":"2018-04-10T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2018-04-06T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T19:12:10","slug":"recommended-read-dale-baileys-the-end-of-the-end-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2018\/04\/recommended-read-dale-baileys-the-end-of-the-end-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Read: Dale Bailey&#8217;s \u201cThe End of the End of Everything\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways, this story is the exact opposite of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2018\/03\/recommended-read-the-donner-party-in-fandsf\/#more-1783\">the last Dale Bailey story I recommended<\/a>\u2014which, in a way, almost makes them philosophical book ends.\u00a0\u00a0That said, the real philosophical counterpart (<em>counterpoint?<\/em>) to Bailey&#8217;s\u00a0\u201cThe End of the End of Everything\u201d is Poe&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~hyper\/poe\/masque.html\">Masque of the Red Death<\/a>&#8220;; please read them back to back and decide where you stand. That&#8217;s what stories are for.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/full_endoftheend.jpg?fit=551%2C+9999&amp;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C700px&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In many ways, this story is the exact opposite of the last Dale Bailey story I recommended\u2014which, in a way, almost makes them philosophical book ends.\u00a0\u00a0That said, the real philosophical counterpart (counterpoint?) to Bailey&#8217;s\u00a0\u201cThe End of the End of Everything\u201d is Poe&#8217;s &#8220;Masque of the Red Death&#8220;; please read them back to back and decide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2018\/04\/recommended-read-dale-baileys-the-end-of-the-end-of-everything\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Recommended Read: Dale Bailey&#8217;s \u201cThe End of the End of Everything\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[153],"tags":[46,30,285,286,284],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}