{"id":1333,"date":"1996-12-17T17:03:15","date_gmt":"1996-12-17T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:04:06","slug":"aggressor-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Aggressor Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Aggressor Six<\/em> by Wil McCarthy<\/h3>\n<p>The topic for our December 17 discussion was           <strong>Aggressor Six<\/strong>, Wil McCarthy&#8217;s first novel. Five           people showed up for the meeting at Adventures at Crime           and Space, and four others had read the book but could           not attend due to illness, childbirth, or scheduling           conflicts. The story, set several hundred years in the           future, was about a team of people (plus a dog!) trying           to figure out the goals and motivations of the mysterious           aliens with whom humanity was at war. We all found the           premise engaging and generally enjoyed the book. Several           felt that McCarthy had constructed an interesting           language for the aliens, and thus they enjoyed the alien           poetry included in the book. We generally found the prose           style compelling, but the author made a few storytelling           choices that we felt weren&#8217;t successful: too many           viewpoint characters, several loose ends, and a lack of           visual descriptions. Overall we felt this was an above           average first novel, and most of those who attended the           discussion immediately bought McCarthy&#8217;s followup book,           <strong>The Fall of Sirius<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggressor Six by Wil McCarthy The topic for our December 17 discussion was Aggressor Six, Wil McCarthy&#8217;s first novel. Five people showed up for the meeting at Adventures at Crime and Space, and four others had read the book but could not attend due to illness, childbirth, or scheduling conflicts. The story, set several hundred [&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-1333","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\/1333","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=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}