{"id":1282,"date":"1998-01-20T16:34:38","date_gmt":"1998-01-20T16:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:35:00","slug":"celestial-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Celestial Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Celestial Matters<\/em> by             Richard Garfinkle<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: Renee Babcock, A. T. Campbell III, Shirley             Crossland, Fred Duarte, Debbie Hodgkinson, Willie             Siros, Lori Wolf<\/p>\n<p>An enthusiastic group discussed <em>Celestial             Matters<\/em>, a first novel set in a world where the             ancient Greek scientists were right: Earth is the             center of the universe, and the sun and planets revolve             around it. The book also has alternate-history aspects,             with Greece remaining the world&#8217;s dominant power             centuries longer than it did in our world. The story             involves a group of Greek scientists who travel to the             sun to capture a piece of solar matter to be used as a             weapon. Most of us liked the book&#8217;s concept a lot, and             we enjoyed how completely the author thought through             all the implications of the science. The fast-paced             story proved to be a fun romp, and we appreciated how             the author made his characters deeper than they needed             to be. Debbie, the lone dissenter, found the premise to             be absurd, and she was only able to finish the book by             reading it as a farce. The rest of us thought it was a             fine first novel and are curious what the author might             do next.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle Attendees: Renee Babcock, A. T. Campbell III, Shirley Crossland, Fred Duarte, Debbie Hodgkinson, Willie Siros, Lori Wolf An enthusiastic group discussed Celestial Matters, a first novel set in a world where the ancient Greek scientists were right: Earth is the center of the universe, and the sun and planets revolve [&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-1282","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\/1282","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=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}