{"id":1364,"date":"1996-03-19T17:22:48","date_gmt":"1996-03-19T17:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:25:18","slug":"the-engines-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"The Engines of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Engines of God<\/em> by Jack McDevitt<\/h3>\n<p>After discussing a disappointing book at our last meeting, we were happier with Jack McDevitt&#8217;s <em>The Engines             of God<\/em>. Despite suddenly             relocating the meeting due to bizarre plumbing problems             at Adventures in Crime &amp; Space, eight people turned             up at the meeting. A representative comment on the             McDevitt book was &#8220;There ought to be more books like             this!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for upcoming books is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2: Permutation City by Greg Egan (at the FACT             Office)<\/li>\n<li>April 16: Anno Dracula by Kim Newman (at ACS)<\/li>\n<li>May 7: Jumper by Steven Gould (at the FACT             Office)<\/li>\n<li>May 21: The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (at ACS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meetings take place on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM. Meeting             sites alternate between Adventures in Crime &amp; Space             bookstore (609-A W Sixth St) and the FACT Office (1204             Nueces). New people are always welcome at the             discussions. For more information, please contact A. T.             Campbell at atc@arlut.utexas.edu or 833-5269.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt After discussing a disappointing book at our last meeting, we were happier with Jack McDevitt&#8217;s The Engines of God. Despite suddenly relocating the meeting due to bizarre plumbing problems at Adventures in Crime &amp; Space, eight people turned up at the meeting. A representative comment on the McDevitt [&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-1364","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\/1364","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=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}