{"id":1318,"date":"1997-03-18T16:53:27","date_gmt":"1997-03-18T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:54:27","slug":"expiration-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Expiration Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Expiration Date<\/em> by Tim             Powers<\/h3>\n<p>Seven of us met at Adventures in Crime and Space on             March 18 to discuss <strong>Expiration Date<\/strong> by Tim             Powers. The novel is a dark fantasy set in Los Angeles,             featuring the ghosts of Thomas Edison and Harry             Houdini. We all liked many of the ideas and elements of             the book, but we were divided about how successfully             the story was told. Two of the group found the writing             style &#8220;wonderful,&#8221; while most of the rest found that             the story started very slowly and took a couple of             hundred pages to pique our interest. One person had             nightmares while reading the book, so obviously the             writing style was effective for her. One member who&#8217;d             also read the British version of the book, which             differed substantially, felt that the American version             seemed &#8220;padded.&#8221; Powers&#8217;s ideas and unique points of             view are always interesting, and we never know what             he&#8217;ll do next.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expiration Date by Tim Powers Seven of us met at Adventures in Crime and Space on March 18 to discuss Expiration Date by Tim Powers. The novel is a dark fantasy set in Los Angeles, featuring the ghosts of Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini. We all liked many of the ideas and elements of 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-1318","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\/1318","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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}