{"id":773,"date":"2004-10-05T15:58:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T15:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=773"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:59:51","slug":"chasm-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Chasm City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Chasm City<\/em> by Alastair Reynolds<\/h3>\n<p>We moved this extremely long, complex space opera up in the       queue 2 weeks early so only 5 people of the 7 who showed up       at the meeting had read any of it. No one had finished.       Four people had read Reynolds previously.<\/p>\n<p>This book is set in the same universe as Reynolds&#8217;s first       book, <em>Revelation Space<\/em>, which we read earlier.       Although <em>Chasm City<\/em> covers some backstory about the       universe, the book can be read as a stand-alone novel. In       it a bodyguard, Tanner<!--more--> Mirabel, searches for the murderer       of his boss. Along the way he becomes infected by a       religious cult&#8217;s virus and ends up in Chasm City, where he       becomes caught up in the game of nano-plague mutants while       at the same time wondering who he really is.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us thought the book should have been broken up into       separate volumes and that it probably did not need the       level of detail and complexity it has. With such a long       book, the author needs to give the reader a major payoff at       the end. The reader who read the farthest said that the       book did get more interesting later on, but most of the       rest of us did not think we would finish.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds We moved this extremely long, complex space opera up in the queue 2 weeks early so only 5 people of the 7 who showed up at the meeting had read any of it. No one had finished. Four people had read Reynolds previously. This book is set in the same [&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-773","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\/773","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=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}