{"id":177,"date":"2023-08-17T02:06:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T02:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-5\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:35:54","slug":"swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"2292\" data-orig-width=\"2293\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/30656882301be4c307e5f5f79817a6ba\/6fe497d59ecf12c0-5a\/s640x960\/3e6679a6d3d03d03df036910836ba682f010be1b.png\" data-orig-height=\"2292\" data-orig-width=\"2293\" alt=\"Magic is here, ready to store your data and keep your cell phone charged... endlessly. So, of course the U.S. Congress decided to pass a law outlawing it as \u201cwitchcraft.\u201d\n\nCameron Green, a Minneapolis-based magitech engineer, has his life and career turned upside down by the ban. Fortunately, Japan\u2019s magic industry is still white-hot...\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"2290\" data-orig-width=\"2292\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/fe722a6101e26cddee76529966d3c6e0\/6fe497d59ecf12c0-c4\/s640x960\/989870e619bebe6b16f79234c286642aa585f94a.png\" data-orig-height=\"2290\" data-orig-width=\"2292\" alt=\"and he\u2019s quickly recruited by Eika Fujiwara to work on her top-secret project.\n\nFor an American finding himself thrust into the complex and cutthroat world of Tokyo\u2019s megacorps, one question takes precedence: Who can you trust?\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1116\" data-orig-width=\"1115\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/2b057c27af6883ffc0abfb39892b00b3\/6fe497d59ecf12c0-a4\/s640x960\/4e11304c35b69a453d39b7106d0decaf735df7d5.png\" data-orig-height=\"1116\" data-orig-width=\"1115\" alt=\"Cameron: As the straight cis upper middle class white male American, I figured I ***was*** the main character and I am kinda relieved not to be.\n\nEika: Most of the book does take place in Japan, Cameron-san\u2026\"><span class=\"tmblr-alt-text-helper\">ALT<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry, Cam, you have some stereotypical MC vibes but you&rsquo;re more of an inciting incident.)<\/p>\n<p>Starting September 12, we&rsquo;ll be posting The Butterfly Koi as a serial novel. Sign up now to read from the beginning at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/href.li\/?https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/syphoncontinuity.substack.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALT ALT ALT Swimming against the current and swept together by circumstance, these six strange bedfellows have everything to lose. (Sorry, Cam, you have some stereotypical MC vibes but you&rsquo;re more of an inciting incident.) Starting September 12, we&rsquo;ll be posting The Butterfly Koi as a serial novel. Sign up now to read from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/swimming-against-the-current-and-swept-together-by-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cameron Green&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":5,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186,187],"tags":[26,29,50,21,47,51],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afterdark","category-prelaunch","tag-novel","tag-original-fiction","tag-sh-ad","tag-substack","tag-syphon-continuity","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syndicatehelios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}