{"id":1345,"date":"1996-10-15T17:10:22","date_gmt":"1996-10-15T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:11:39","slug":"cetaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1345","title":{"rendered":"Cetaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Cetaganda<\/em> by Lois McMaster Bujold<\/h3>\n<p>We gathered at Adventures in Crime and             Space to talk about Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s             <strong>Cetaganda<\/strong>, a fast-spaced space opera\/ mystery             featuring Bujold&#8217;s best-known character, Miles Naismith             Vorkosigan. Our discussion again had seven members,             including two newcomers. All but one us had finished             the book, and it turned out that most of us had read             nearly the complete works of Bujold. That led to an             informed and lively discussion, but every few minutes             we&#8217;d have to steer ourselves from general discussion of             Bujold&#8217;s ouevre to the specific book in question. We             all enjoyed the book, although most felt it was not up             to the level of Bujold&#8217;s best work (generally             acknowledged to be <strong>Mirror Dance<\/strong>).             <strong>Cetaganda<\/strong> successfully depicts a meeting of two             distinct alien cultures invented by Bujold. Several             striking images are evoked, particularly the &#8220;kitten             bush&#8221;. Notable quotes from our discussion include             &#8220;began like a mystery, but wasn&#8217;t a whodunnit&#8221;, &#8220;this             society is as plausible as any far future&#8221;, and &#8220;this             book should have been either shorter or longer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold We gathered at Adventures in Crime and Space to talk about Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s Cetaganda, a fast-spaced space opera\/ mystery featuring Bujold&#8217;s best-known character, Miles Naismith Vorkosigan. Our discussion again had seven members, including two newcomers. All but one us had finished the book, and it turned out that most [&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-1345","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\/1345","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=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}