{"id":1277,"date":"1998-02-17T15:55:09","date_gmt":"1998-02-17T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:32:49","slug":"the-dark-beyond-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Beyond the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Dark Beyond the Stars<\/em> by             Frank Robinson<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: A. T. Campbell III, Shirley Crossland, Fred             Duarte., Jeff Rupley, Willie Siros, Lori Wolf<\/p>\n<p>We had a good turnout for the discussion of Frank             Robinson&#8217;s <em>The Dark Beyond the Stars<\/em>, the Lambda             Award-winning generation ship novel. The novel&#8217;s             protagonist starts the book with amnesia, and we learn             with him as he slowly peels away layers of truth about             the environment in which he finds himself. We thought             the amnesia worked well as a narrative device, and each             level of revelation turned out to be more interesting             and mind-blowing than the last. This novel is a rare             book that provides intellectual thrills. The ending             ties together all the plot threads in a very satisfying             manner. The imagery of the book is often quite             striking, and the author is clever in how he re-uses             images for dramatic effect. One person commented that             the book was an amazingly good take on such a hoary             concept, and that he&#8217;d nominated for the Hugo the year             it was eligible. We all thought this book was worthy of             many awards, and are disappointed that the author             doesn&#8217;t have any other books in print.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dark Beyond the Stars by Frank Robinson Attendees: A. T. Campbell III, Shirley Crossland, Fred Duarte., Jeff Rupley, Willie Siros, Lori Wolf We had a good turnout for the discussion of Frank Robinson&#8217;s The Dark Beyond the Stars, the Lambda Award-winning generation ship novel. The novel&#8217;s protagonist starts the book with amnesia, and we [&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-1277","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\/1277","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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}