{"id":389,"date":"2014-08-23T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-08-23T05:09:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:09:14","slug":"the-ruby-dice-catherine-asaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/2014\/08\/23\/the-ruby-dice-catherine-asaro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ruby Dice – Catherine Asaro"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I discovered The Ruby Dice<\/em><\/a> by Catherine Asaro I was positively entranced. \u00a0It was another book in a series (the Skolian Empire<\/a>) I had been enjoying, and that was why I picked it up, but more than that, it introduced a dazzling concept I had never encountered before.<\/p>\n

A means of communicating and exploring ideas through a dice based game. \u00a0Elaborate concepts and structures were laid out,\u00a0described as being somewhere between tremendous dominoes extravaganzas, and those multi-deck card houses my parents would demand I put away before going to bed because a card house simply was not meant to fill the entire carpeted floor of the living room — or so they thought. \u00a0But these structures were made up of dice, each of which represented concepts, people, ideas, and the game functioned as a part of the plot and intrigue in the story.<\/p>\n

By the time I reached the end of the book I almost understood the dice game, and suddenly I wanted to read the book all over again, wondering if with that new found understanding parts of the plot might play differently.<\/p>\n

I have never been one to play the games that require 10 and 20 sided dice, and yet I can not help but wonder if The Ruby Dice<\/em> is a book that would make even more sense, and hold more meaning to someone who is accustomed to seeing meaning in dice where all I see is painted numbers on an object I roll while praying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I discovered The Ruby Dice by Catherine Asaro I was positively entranced. \u00a0It was another book in a series (the Skolian Empire) I had been enjoying, and that was why I picked it up, but more than that, it introduced a dazzling concept I had never encountered before. A means of communicating and exploring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[424,2616,427,45,344,440,426,425],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novel","category-review","tag-catherine-asaro","tag-novel","tag-novel-approach","tag-popartsplace","tag-popartsplace-com","tag-ruby-dice","tag-skolian-empire","tag-the-ruby-dice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.popartsplace.net\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}