{"id":2093,"date":"2026-04-05T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T15:59:19","slug":"plan-b-summing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=2093","title":{"rendered":"Plan B Summing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plan B<\/em> is the book in which Val Con and Miri establish that, yes, they are Trouble Magnets.<\/p>\n

And that, together, they are “hell on wheels.”<\/p>\n

It’s also the first time we see Val Con in context (“You’re tall!”), and start to get an idea of what Other Liadens think of Korval — even Erob, their long-term ally, is . . . wary.<\/p>\n

We get to see Miri in her field of competence.\u00a0 We get one of my favorite lines:\u00a0 “Other people give their wives flowers.”<\/p>\n

We get Nelirikk, who I persist in adoring.\u00a0 We get Shan in Weapon Hall, accepting both Soldier Lore<\/em>, and his deep ties to an unlikely, and ungodly sort of god.<\/p>\n

Steve did the layout of the mercenary camp, came up with the codes, “This is the Joker, this is the Joker. . .” and the battle scenes.\u00a0 He was in the cockpit with Val Con, drunk from the effects of the Yxtrang bullet, flies his stolen plane, laughing<\/em> at the pursuing fighters, and remembering, as he comes in just over the treeline, that he had “always been good” at this . . .<\/p>\n

Despite it being a “war book,” it made me laugh, and I’m very fond of it, even after all this time.<\/p>\n

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Plan B is the book in which Val Con and Miri establish that, yes, they are Trouble Magnets. And that, together, they are “hell on wheels.” It’s also the first time we see Val Con in context (“You’re tall!”), and start to get an idea of what Other Liadens think of Korval — even Erob, … Continue reading Plan B Summing Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liaden-read-along","tag-liaden-read-along"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}