{"id":1306,"date":"1997-09-16T16:45:12","date_gmt":"1997-09-16T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:46:06","slug":"the-fortunate-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"The Fortunate Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Fortunate Fall<\/em> by           Raphael Carter<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: A. T. Campbell, III; Shirley Crossland;             Cyndi Dunn; Wes Dunn; Jeff Rupley; Willie Siros; Lori             Wolf.<\/p>\n<p>We gathered at Adventures in Crime &amp; Space to             discuss <em>The Fortunate Fall<\/em>, a recent cyberpunk             first novel Although many of us had grown tired of             cyberpunk in recent years, we found this story to be             interesting and well-told. The characters, especially             the narrator, were well-developed and the prose style             was eminently<!--more--> readable. Carter&#8217;s speculations on the             future of the Internet were well-conceived and             plausible, and worked well as story elements.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few problems. Some of us found the             constant use of 20th Century popular culture references             distracting and confusing, and we were worried that it             would date the book. As Wes Dunn put it, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have             a lot of connection with current culture.&#8221; And while             the political climate in this near-future book was             interesting, many of us couldn&#8217;t figure out how to &#8220;get             there from here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We found this book to be a strong debut, and we             recommend it to folks looking for intelligent science             fiction.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter Attendees: A. T. Campbell, III; Shirley Crossland; Cyndi Dunn; Wes Dunn; Jeff Rupley; Willie Siros; Lori Wolf. We gathered at Adventures in Crime &amp; Space to discuss The Fortunate Fall, a recent cyberpunk first novel Although many of us had grown tired of cyberpunk in recent years, we found [&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-1306","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\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}