{"id":214,"date":"2009-01-05T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=214"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:22:57","slug":"axis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Axis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Axis <\/em>by Robert Charles Wilson<\/h3>\n<p>Ten people attended this discussion  at A. T.&#8217;s house, and  three submitted comments by email. Our topic was Robert  Charles  Wilson\u2019s <em>Axis<\/em>, the sequel to  the Hugo-winning novel <em>Spin<\/em>. At the  end of <em>Spin<\/em>, a gateway had been opened to a strange alien world. The plot of <em>Axis<\/em> takes place thirty years later,  featuring various groups of humans who  have settled in the new world. It\u2019s a  complicated story involving  government conspiracy, romance, genetic  engineering, and attempts to  communicate with aliens. All of us had read Wilson  before, and all had  read <em>Spin<\/em>. We all  started <em>Axis<\/em>, but only three finished  the book and three more planned to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Our opinions of this book were fairly  similar. We think  that this book has well-crafted prose, but the story and  characters are  less engaging than those of<!--more--> <em>Spin<\/em>.  The speculative ideas in <em>Axis<\/em> do not  generate much emotional impact, and we found it hard to care  about the  characters. \u00a0One of the major characters  is not completely  human, and it\u2019s hard for other characters (and us readers) to  relate to  him. We also felt that this book was clearly the second book in a  trilogy,  and suffers from having neither a beginning nor an end. Many  of us simply found  this book too easy to put down.<\/p>\n<p>Since our opinions of the book were  so similar, the meeting  was fairly short. Afterward, many of us had a nice  dinner at Chili\u2019s.<br \/>\n<em> &#8212; A.T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axis by Robert Charles Wilson Ten people attended this discussion at A. T.&#8217;s house, and three submitted comments by email. Our topic was Robert Charles Wilson\u2019s Axis, the sequel to the Hugo-winning novel Spin. At the end of Spin, a gateway had been opened to a strange alien world. The plot of Axis takes place [&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-214","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\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}