{"id":421,"date":"2006-08-01T05:37:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T05:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=421"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:23:30","slug":"stables-strategies-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Stables Strategies and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Stables Strategies and Others<\/em> by           Eileen Gunn<\/h3>\n<p>This meeting at Charles and Willie\u2019s home drew an           attendance of nine. Our subject was a collection of           Eileen Gunn\u2019s entire body of fiction published           over the course of a 20 year career. Ms. Gunn is not a           prolific writer, and this book contains barely 200           pages. All of us started the book, with five finishing           it.<\/p>\n<p>This volume contains several noteworthy tales. The           title story, \u201cStable Strategies for Middle           Management,\u201d is a cautionary tale about working           for a large corporation. \u201cFellow           Americans,\u201d an alternative history that deviated           from our<!--more--> own world in the mid-60s, is a charming and           humorous story reminiscent of the work of Howard           Waldrop. \u201cComputer Friendly\u201d is a creepy           story of children too good with computers for their own           well-being.<\/p>\n<p>The book concludes with its longest story, \u201cGreen           Fire\u201d, written tag-team with Andy Duncan, Pat           Murphy, and Michael Swanwick. It\u2019s a World War II           era story featuring young sf writers L. Sprague de           Camp, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and computer           pioneer Grace Hopper. We found it to be a fun sea           adventure. Several of us at the meeting had seen           Admiral Hopper speak at computer conventions, and we           felt her personality was captured well.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the book, we were consistently impressed           with the author\u2019s biting edge and cutting humor.           Gunn\u2019s prose is distilled and terse, yet tells           the story effectively. And of course we were pleased           that her author\u2019s notes called ArmadilloCon           \u201cthe hippest science fiction convention on the           face of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall we enjoyed this book. After the meeting, we had           dinner at Fuddrucker\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stables Strategies and Others by Eileen Gunn This meeting at Charles and Willie\u2019s home drew an attendance of nine. Our subject was a collection of Eileen Gunn\u2019s entire body of fiction published over the course of a 20 year career. Ms. Gunn is not a prolific writer, and this book contains barely 200 pages. All [&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-421","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\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}