{"id":1312,"date":"1997-07-15T16:47:32","date_gmt":"1997-07-15T16:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:47:54","slug":"blue-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1312","title":{"rendered":"Blue Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Blue Mars<\/em> by Kim Stanley             Robinson<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: A. T. Campbell, III; Fred Duarte, Jr.; Jeff             Rupley.<\/p>\n<p>We had a small group at Adventures in Crime and Space             to discuss Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s <em>Blue Mars.<\/em> This book is the concluding volume in a trilogy about             the near-future terraforming of Mars. I&#8217;d not yet read             up to page 100, but Fred had finished the novel and             Jeff had re-read the entire trilogy! We all felt that             this book was the weakest of the series. Jeff felt that             <em>Blue Mars<\/em> had nothing to offer readers who&#8217;d             already read the first two. Fred summarized the plot as             &#8220;Angst happens, technology advances.&#8221; I&#8217;d detected a             tendency to repeat successful elements from the             previous books, and Fred and Jeff assured me that it             happened throughout the novel. We thus declared this             book to be Stan Robinson&#8217;s &#8220;Return of the Jedi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson Attendees: A. T. Campbell, III; Fred Duarte, Jr.; Jeff Rupley. We had a small group at Adventures in Crime and Space to discuss Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s Blue Mars. This book is the concluding volume in a trilogy about the near-future terraforming of Mars. I&#8217;d not yet read up to [&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-1312","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\/1312","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=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}