{"id":123,"date":"2007-11-24T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T07:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/heartofthemachine\/2007\/11\/24\/being-an-other\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T07:10:24","slug":"being-an-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/heartofthemachine\/2007\/11\/24\/being-an-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Being an Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking with my friend and Team Cthulhu member Craig about the Night Watch<\/a> series of books by Sergei Lukyanenko. I know people have some mixed feelings about the books, but I love, love, love them. Some of it I am sure comes from 4 years of Russian in high school and a year in college but I just dig the russian outlook in literature. Sure it is a bit more grim than american fiction, and a bit more visceral. <\/p>\n

Accept it for what it is. It isn’t Buffy, although some of the tropes are the same, it has it’s own spirit and I love it for it. The books have a spirit uniquely their own and it is all Moscovian and on a larger scale Russian. It is a very cool voice in fiction. I’d really like to see more genre russian works, we need to mix it up a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking with my friend and Team Cthulhu member Craig about the Night Watch series of books by Sergei Lukyanenko. I know people have some mixed feelings about the books, but I love, love, love them. Some of it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n