{"id":1355,"date":"1996-07-02T17:16:45","date_gmt":"1996-07-02T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:17:33","slug":"the-terminal-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"The Terminal Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer<\/h3>\n<p>The July Reading Group activities started on July 2           with a splash &#8212; a pool party at Elaine Powell&#8217;s house.           We had lots of fun eating pizza and watermelon, and most           of the nine of us got into the pool. In the midst of all           the party atmosphere, we actually did spend some time           discussing Robert J. Sawyer&#8217;s <strong>The Terminal           Experiment<\/strong>. This novel, a techno-thriller about a           medical researcher delving into the nature of human           consciousness, recently won the Nebula Award and is a           current finalist for the Hugo Award. Our members all           appreciated Sawyer&#8217;s slick writing style &#8212; none of us           had any trouble finishing the book. We were divided in           how much we liked the premise of the book. The book&#8217;s           fictional advances in medical technology are used for           some controversial purposes that troubled several in our           group. We all found it to be a thought-provoking story           that prompted interesting discussion, and many of us will           be looking forward to reading Sawyer&#8217;s next book.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer The July Reading Group activities started on July 2 with a splash &#8212; a pool party at Elaine Powell&#8217;s house. We had lots of fun eating pizza and watermelon, and most of the nine of us got into the pool. In the midst of all the party atmosphere, [&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-1355","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\/1355","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=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}