{"id":767,"date":"2004-11-02T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=767"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:57:25","slug":"darwins-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Darwin&#8217;s Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Darwin&#8217;s Children<\/em> by Greg Bear<\/h3>\n<p>Only 7 of the 12 people who came to the discussion on a       dismal election day had read this sequel to <em>Darwin&#8217;s       Radio<\/em>. All who started it had finished and all but one       person had read Bear before.<\/p>\n<p>This book begins 12 years after the first book and follows       some of the same characters. The &#8220;virus children,&#8221; the next       evolutionary leap, are growing up. Their odd looks and       abilities cause fear, which leads the government to put       them in<!--more-->camps to &#8220;protect&#8221; them.<\/p>\n<p>Although the book is well-written, has interesting       characters and action, and does not have the info-dumps of       the first book, many readers did not like it as well. The       stupid and villainous ways the government and unevolved       people react was too scary and believable, too close to the       current situation in the country, for comfortable       election-season reading. We also thought the ending was       resolved too quickly and simplistically.<\/p>\n<p>After discussing the book, and wishing that if Bear does       write a third volume, it is more like the first one, we       went on to the topic of what books should be on the next       voting list&#8211;always hoping to find something worth reading.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darwin&#8217;s Children by Greg Bear Only 7 of the 12 people who came to the discussion on a dismal election day had read this sequel to Darwin&#8217;s Radio. All who started it had finished and all but one person had read Bear before. This book begins 12 years after the first book and follows some [&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-767","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\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}