{"id":32801,"date":"2022-02-14T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/the-people-of-sand-and-slag\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:10:00","slug":"the-people-of-sand-and-slag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/the-people-of-sand-and-slag\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;the people of sand and slag&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For this assignment you&#8217;ll need to read &#8220;The People of Sand and Slag,&#8221; the Hugo and Nebula nominated short story by Paolo Bacigalupi.\u00a0 Be warned, it&#8217;s not a happy piece but is, in my opinion, one of the finest pieces of speculative fiction written in the last twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>How do the plot, characters, setting, POV and tone of the piece create the desired affect?\u00a0 What is Bacigalupi saying about what it means to be human?\u00a0 Is he right?<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to cite your direct quotes and I&#8217;ll need a bib and citations if you use outside sources.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baen.com\/Chapters\/1597801348\/1597801348___3.htm\">https:\/\/www.baen.com\/Chapters\/1597801348\/1597801348___3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment you&#8217;ll need to read &#8220;The People of Sand and Slag,&#8221; the Hugo and Nebula nominated short story by Paolo Bacigalupi.\u00a0 Be warned, it&#8217;s not a happy piece but is, in my opinion, one of the finest pieces of speculative fiction written in the last twenty years. How do the plot, characters, setting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}