{"id":11350,"date":"2011-03-15T08:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T22:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2011-03-15T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T02:36:59","slug":"robin-hobb-the-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=11350","title":{"rendered":"ROBIN HOBB THE INHERITANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a career spanning over two decades, Robin Hobb has risen to the top of the fantasy genre globally. Her name, adorning bookshelves everywhere, has become synonymous with compelling, epic fantasy fiction.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the early chapter of her career, she established herself as an author under the name \u2018Megan Lindholm\u2019. In 1992, she decided to embark on fictional narratives of greater epic scope. To mirror that shift in direction, she chose a new name, \u2018Robin Hobb\u2019, under which she has written a stream of bestselling fantasy trilogies, including <em>The Rain Wild Chronicles<\/em>,<em> Soldier Son Trilogy<\/em>,<em> The Tawny Man Trilogy<\/em>,<em> Liveship Traders Trilogy<\/em> and <em>The Farseer Trilogy<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Inheritance<\/em>, the short stories of both Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm are brought together in one superb collection.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018I feel the two pseudonyms have very different styles and choose different types of stories to tell. Whenever I get a story idea, I know immediately if it will be a Lindholm or a Hobb,\u2019 said Robin. \u2018When I am writing as Hobb, I tend to be more detailed and emotional.\u2019<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TOUR DATES FOR SUPANOVA <\/strong><strong>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supanova.com.au\/\">www.supanova.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brisbane 1\u20134 April | Sydney 5\u20137 April | Melbourne 8\u201311 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this short story collection, Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders with vampires, alien musicians, tramps and feral cats. In one story, Lady Carillion Carrock and a number of nobles are sailing to the Cursed Shores \u2014 stripped of wealth and in exile. She believes they are bound for wondrous cities, but when she is marooned by the ship\u2019s unscrupulous captain she will soon discover the grim reality of what survival in the Rain Wilds entails. In another, a would-be writer is eking out a dull existence by working in a Sears store. Then one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a career spanning over two decades, Robin Hobb has risen to the top of the fantasy genre globally. Her name, adorning bookshelves everywhere, has become synonymous with compelling, epic fantasy fiction.\u00a0 In the early chapter of her career, she established herself as an author under the name \u2018Megan Lindholm\u2019. In 1992, she decided to<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=11350\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11352,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}