{"id":15592,"date":"2008-09-17T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2008\/09\/17\/nice-review-for-finitude\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:44","slug":"nice-review-for-finitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2008\/09\/17\/nice-review-for-finitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice review for Finitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"Sandra Alland's Blog-Like Entity\" href=\"http:\/\/apps.blissfultimes.ca\/Blog\/\">poet Sandra Alland&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of the End Of The World As We Know It, I&#8217;m reading a book by an amazing micropress publisher who hand-makes all his (gorgeous!) books. He&#8217;s Edinburgh&#8217;s <strong>Hamish MacDonald<\/strong>, and the book is <strong><em>Finitude<\/em><\/strong>. It&#8217;s not really the kind of book I&#8217;d normally read&#8230; speculative fiction, sci-fi, end-times kind of thing. But the confession is &#8212; I&#8217;m really digging it. The world is ending because of humanity&#8217;s environmental abuses. But our anti-hero &#8212; a gay salesman who just wants to save his own ass &#8212; makes it superfascinating and not preachy. MacDonald knows how to tell a story well, and has an imagination on par with some of the most famous science fiction writers out there. The characters are well-painted and the action is downright filmic. Thumbs up for making me read something out of my normal range&#8230; and like it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;Yay!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1101\/nice-review-for-finitude0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From poet Sandra Alland&#8217;s blog: Speaking of the End Of The World As We Know It, I&#8217;m reading a book by an amazing micropress publisher who hand-makes all his (gorgeous!) books. He&#8217;s Edinburgh&#8217;s Hamish MacDonald, and the book is Finitude. It&#8217;s not really the kind of book I&#8217;d normally read&#8230; speculative fiction, sci-fi, end-times kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}