{"id":1099,"date":"2026-02-23T22:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:56:57","slug":"jon-zaremba-xlzabk002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Jon Zaremba XLZABK002"},"content":{"rendered":"I first encountered Jon Zaremba\u2019s work in a novelette in David Riley\u2019s &#8220;Swords &#038; Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy&#8221; anthology series no 11. It was for me an astoundingly brilliant and unique tale. Frankly, it has been years since I have read anything quite as remarkable. <br \/><br \/>In XLZABK002 Zaremba offers seven stories each of which would fit a different genre of speculative fiction. There is a  unified theme: resurrection, actualisation and transformation but I suspect that every reader will find something different in each approach. There is something of Nietzsche, of Twin Peaks, of neopaganism, sword and sorcery, myth and early Pink Floyd. <br \/><br \/>The concepts are challenging but Zaremba writes the most natural and exciting prose imaginable. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered Jon Zaremba\u2019s work in a novelette in David Riley\u2019s &#8220;Swords &#038; Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy&#8221; anthology series no 11. It was for me an astoundingly brilliant and unique tale. Frankly, it has been years since I have read anything quite as remarkable. In XLZABK002 Zaremba offers seven stories each of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,16,1],"tags":[173],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-heaven","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","tag-jon-zaremba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heavenmakers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}