{"id":1329,"date":"1997-01-21T17:00:31","date_gmt":"1997-01-21T17:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:01:27","slug":"branch-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Branch Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Branch Point<\/em> by Mona Clee<\/h3>\n<p>On             January 21, five of us met at Adventures in Crime and             Space to discuss <strong>Branch Point<\/strong>, a first novel by             former Austinite Mona Clee. Two people who couldn&#8217;t             attend the meeting e-mailed comments about the novel.             The story was a new twist on time travel, with a group             of teenagers from 2063 traveling back to various events             in the late 20th century trying to prevent nuclear             disaster. Notably, the book uses recent and current             political figures (especially Presidents Kennedy and             Clinton) as major characters in the story. An initial             gripping chain of events got us hurtling through the             first 60 pages or so, but some of us felt the plot lost             inertia and focus in the latter part of the book.             Several bizarre historical facts (Colonel Sanders was             almost a Vice Presidential candidate in the 60s?) were             used as springboards for ingenious plot twists. We felt             this was a strong first novel, and we&#8217;re looking             forward to Ms. Clee&#8217;s next book.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branch Point by Mona Clee On January 21, five of us met at Adventures in Crime and Space to discuss Branch Point, a first novel by former Austinite Mona Clee. Two people who couldn&#8217;t attend the meeting e-mailed comments about the novel. The story was a new twist on time travel, with a group of [&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-1329","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\/1329","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=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}