{"id":1290,"date":"1997-11-18T16:37:56","date_gmt":"1997-11-18T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:38:39","slug":"the-bones-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"The Bones of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Bones of Time<\/em> by             Kathleen Ann Goonan<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: A. T. Campbell III, Karen Meschke, Jeff             Rupley, Lori Wolf<\/p>\n<p>We had a small but loyal turnout at the FACT Office to             discuss Kathleen Ann Goonan&#8217;s second novel, The Bones             of Time. The book interweaves two story lines. In the             first story, a mathematician in the early             21<sup>st<\/sup> Century has a time-traveling romance             with a Hawaiian princess from hundreds of years ago.             The other story, set a couple of decades later in the             future, is a complicated adventure involving a clone of             King Kamehameha, travel between dimensions, espionage,             the space program, and the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n<p>We all found the romantic story line interesting and             compelling. The passions of the characters seemed real,             and the mathematician&#8217;s life was depicted well. The             clone story was less satisfying. Its elements were             contrived, the writing seemed<!--more--> padded, and we all tended             to skim through its sequences to get back to the             romantic plot thread.<\/p>\n<p>We felt that the marketing of this book as science             fiction was deceptive. Despite the future timeframe of             the plot, the world in the story was identical to our             own. The time-traveling and dimension-traveling             mechanisms of the story were based more in fantasy than             in science, and we felt the book would have been more             successful had it been written as a fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this book&#8217;s flaws, it had enough interesting             elements that we felt Goonan had promise as a writer.             Karen had read Goonan&#8217;s first novel<em>, Queen City             Jazz<\/em>, and found it to be a better book. We might             give that book a try one of these days.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bones of Time by Kathleen Ann Goonan Attendees: A. T. Campbell III, Karen Meschke, Jeff Rupley, Lori Wolf We had a small but loyal turnout at the FACT Office to discuss Kathleen Ann Goonan&#8217;s second novel, The Bones of Time. The book interweaves two story lines. In the first story, a mathematician in the [&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-1290","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\/1290","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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}