{"id":776,"date":"2004-09-21T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=776"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:01:08","slug":"the-speed-of-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"The Speed of Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Speed of Dark<\/em> by Elizabeth Moon<\/h3>\n<p>Eleven people met to discuss this book, and 2 sent in       e-mail comments. Of the 11, only one had not read any of       the book and one had not finished. Nine had read Moon&#8217;s       work previously.<\/p>\n<p>In this Nebula Award-winning, near-future book, autist Lou       is faced with a dangerous procedure to correct his       condition, but it may also change who he is. Moon paints a       vivid picture of his different inner world, showing us his       obsession<!--more--> with patterns and with what is normal behavior.       The book does not end with a sugar-coated, everything is       perfect now scene, but with realistic consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Moon has succeeded in creating a story quite unique from       <em>Flowers for Algernon<\/em>, but it is a very human story.       More like <em>Remnant Population<\/em> than her military SF.       Although some of us found the story a bit slow-paced and       the ending too abrupt, we found Lou so engaging and       sympathetic, and Moon&#8217;s writing so flawless, that we found       ourselves discussing the issues brought up in the book       instead of how the book was written. One issue was       Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome (Geek Syndrome), a part of the autistic       spectrum and a common disorder among sci-fi fans and       techies.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the few books most of us have liked and       would recommend from what we have read so far in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon Eleven people met to discuss this book, and 2 sent in e-mail comments. Of the 11, only one had not read any of the book and one had not finished. Nine had read Moon&#8217;s work previously. In this Nebula Award-winning, near-future book, autist Lou is faced with a [&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-776","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\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}