{"id":219,"date":"2010-05-18T13:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T05:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=219"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:26:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T05:26:41","slug":"outside-the-influence-of-heaven-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Outside the Influence of Heaven and Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In three pieces of fiction involving heaven and hell (relatively) recently, I&#8217;ve come across a similar kind of concept: the idea of a place outside the influecen of heaven and hell. Is this a new meme bubbling up in fiction or is it just an old trope I&#8217;ve not recognised before? The three in question have very different versions of the idea, though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mike Carey&#8217;s <em>Lucifer<\/em> series starts with Lucifer gaining an exist from God&#8217;s creation to &#8220;the void&#8221; beyond;<\/li>\n<li>Simon R. Green&#8217;s <em>Nightside <\/em>is explicitly created to be outside the power of both heaven and hell, although both angels and demons do visit it when the plot demands;<\/li>\n<li>Liz William&#8217;s <em>The Shadow Pavilion<\/em> introduces a new element to her classic Eastern mythology with <em>Between<\/em> the places in the cracks where inspiration comes from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In three pieces of fiction involving heaven and hell (relatively) recently, I&#8217;ve come across a similar kind of concept: the idea of a place outside the influecen of heaven and hell. Is this a new meme bubbling up in fiction or is it just an old trope I&#8217;ve not recognised before? The three in question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-books","category-sf-comics","category-sf-cross-media","category-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}