{"id":1320,"date":"1997-03-04T16:54:51","date_gmt":"1997-03-04T16:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:55:50","slug":"wildside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"Wildside"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Wildside<\/em> by Steven Gould<\/h3>\n<p>On March 4, eight of us met at the FACT Office to             discuss Steven Gould&#8217;s <strong>Wildside<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a             coming-of-age science fiction story in which a group of             Texas teenagers discover a gateway to a world filled             with saber-toothed tigers, wooly mammoths, and other             supposedly-extinct creatures. We found Gould&#8217;s prose             style quite readable, and we admired the author&#8217;s             intent for the book to be read both by adults and             younger readers. The novel features extensive aviation             scenes, which the private pilot in our group pronounced             generally accurate. The characters were             multidimensional and easy to tell apart, and their             relationships seemed real. While we all found the basic             concept fascinating, many of us wished the author had             explored his world more. As one person put it, &#8220;it&#8217;s             like making <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> with the dinosaurs             offscreen.&#8221; Overall we liked the book, and we&#8217;re             looking forward to what Gould writes next.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>-A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wildside by Steven Gould On March 4, eight of us met at the FACT Office to discuss Steven Gould&#8217;s Wildside. It&#8217;s a coming-of-age science fiction story in which a group of Texas teenagers discover a gateway to a world filled with saber-toothed tigers, wooly mammoths, and other supposedly-extinct creatures. We found Gould&#8217;s prose style quite [&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-1320","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\/1320","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=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}