{"id":1162,"date":"1999-05-18T08:31:29","date_gmt":"1999-05-18T08:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2012-04-25T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:32:07","slug":"greenwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Greenwar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Greenwar<\/em> by Steven Gould and Laura J.             Mixon<\/h3>\n<p>Ten people showed up for this meeting, which took place             at a pool party hosted by Elaine Powell. Additionally,             one person e-mailed in comments. Much of the evening             involves splashing around, eating, and visiting, but we             managed to work in a short book discussion while             waiting for the delivery man from Mangia Pizza.<\/p>\n<p><em>Greenwar<\/em> is a fast-paced technological thriller             involving terrorists who attack high-tech facilities in             the name of saving the environment. The story is told             from the viewpoints of three characters: Emma, the             engineer who designed a facility<!--more--> earmarked for attack;             Gabriel, a leader of the terrorist group; and Keith, an             undercover EPA agent trying to stop the terrorists. The             story starts in Texas and New Mexico, but most of the             action happens in or near Gulfstream I, the offshore             facility designed by Emma that is located off the East             coast of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>We all liked this book. The high-tech oceanic             environment was unusual and well described. Several             actions scenes are quite rousing, particularly a             hurricane sequence near the beginning. The characters             have interesting careers and hobbies, and they&#8217;re             passionate about their lives. A few of us thought the             high-tech, action-packed elements of this book would             appeal to Tom Clancy fans, despite <em>Greenwar<\/em> having no military content.<\/p>\n<p>This book did have problems. The many descriptions of             office politics of Emma&#8217;s company were boring to some             of us. The motivations of the terrorists are never             adequately explained, which was dissatisfying.<\/p>\n<p>Overall we enjoyed this book. When the guy from Mangia             arrived, we stopped discussing and started eating.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwar by Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon Ten people showed up for this meeting, which took place at a pool party hosted by Elaine Powell. Additionally, one person e-mailed in comments. Much of the evening involves splashing around, eating, and visiting, but we managed to work in a short book discussion while waiting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}