{"id":1290,"date":"2022-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T05:20:07","slug":"the-atlas-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2022\/05\/25\/the-atlas-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlas Six"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Olive Blake<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>MacMillan<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, May 25th 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Every decade, a handful of the world\u2019s most powerful magicians are invited to join the Alexandrian Society, gatekeepers of history&#8217;s most powerful arcane texts. Six are selected, but one must be sacrificed before the group\u2019s induction to maintain the magical balance. This year\u2019s intake includes a rival pair of \u2018physicists\u2019 who can manipulate matter, a power channeler, and a young man who can see through illusions and down to the sub-atomic level. The intake is rounded out by a telepath who combines her power with seduction to great effect, and an empath adept at turning people\u2019s emotional pain against themselves. We get to know all six as the first-person narrative moves between them, and the deserving victim\/villain is soon apparent. But the very fact that the divisions are so clear hints at a broader agenda to be played out in forthcoming instalments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By combining the freedom and camaraderie of the boarding-school tale with dreams of exceptionalism, stories of magical academies become wish-fulfilment fantasies that appeal to the child in all of us. As such, <em>The Atlas Six<\/em> is right on target and will join <em>Ninth House<\/em>, <em>The Magicians<\/em> and <em>A Deadly Education<\/em> on my \u2018guilty pleasures\u2019 shelves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olive Blake MacMillan Otago Daily Times, May 25th 2022 Every decade, a handful of the world\u2019s most powerful magicians are invited to join the Alexandrian Society, gatekeepers of history&#8217;s most powerful arcane texts. Six are selected, but one must be sacrificed before the group\u2019s induction to maintain the magical balance. This year\u2019s intake includes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[381,370,18,503,407],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-381","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-olivie-blake","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}