{"id":1303,"date":"1997-09-30T16:44:19","date_gmt":"1997-09-30T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:45:00","slug":"pasquales-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Pasquale&#8217;s Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Pasquale&#8217;s Angel<\/em> by Paul             J. McAuley<\/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 discussion of <em>Pasquale&#8217;s Angel<\/em>, an             alternate history set in a Renaissance Italy where             Leonardo concentrated on engineering instead of art.             The story starts with a series of mysterious deaths             being investigated Holmes-and-Watson style by Niccolo             Macchiaveli and a young artist named Pasquale. Along             the way they encounter political intrigue, many other             famous folks from the<!--more--> time period, and some amazing             inventions.<\/p>\n<p>We all finished this book easily, and were quite happy             with McAuley&#8217;s writing style. The story was engrossing             and well-told. The points of departure from our own             history were related clearly but subtly. The artist&#8217;s             lifestyle led by Pasquale seemed realistic, and it             surprisingly was like the lives of contemporary             artists. Interesting political issues motivated the             plot.<\/p>\n<p>We ended by comparing this book with Jack Dann&#8217;s <em>The             Memory Cathedral<\/em>, a Renaissance SF novel that we             read a couple of years ago. While both books had much             to offer, we all preferred <em>Pasquale&#8217;s Angel<\/em> and             would recommend it highly.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasquale&#8217;s Angel by Paul J. McAuley Attendees: A. T. Campbell, III; Shirley Crossland; Fred Duarte; Jeff Rupley; Willie Siros; Lori Wolf. We had a good discussion of Pasquale&#8217;s Angel, an alternate history set in a Renaissance Italy where Leonardo concentrated on engineering instead of art. The story starts with a series of mysterious deaths being [&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-1303","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\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}