{"id":782,"date":"2004-08-17T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=782"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:04:05","slug":"crossfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"Crossfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Crossfire<\/em> by Nancy Kress<\/h3>\n<p>Twelve people showed up for the discussion of this first       book in the <em>Crossfire<\/em> series. Of those, five had       finished it, three had read part of it, and eight had read       Kress before.<\/p>\n<p>The book begins when Quakers, Saudis, American Indians, and       other groups with enough money to buy passage off a dying       Earth colonize a planet they call Greentrees. There they       discover puzzling, non-native inhabitants, the Furs, and       become embroiled in interstellar war. Besides the usual       problems of survival on a<!--more--> new planet, interpersonal       tensions and moral and ethical decisions complicate the       plot.<\/p>\n<p>This turned out to be another book with a wide range of       reader reactions, from love to hate. Kress did write a       readable, fun, fast-paced book and pulled out a lot of       alligators, keeping the reader from guessing what would       come next. However, some of the alligators needed better       development. The main characters were complex and faulted,       but could have been more sympathetic, though many of us did       like the Quaker.<\/p>\n<p>We have read better from Kress, especially <em>Beggars in       Spain<\/em>, and wondered if the death of Charles Sheffield       may have affected the evenness of <em>Crossfire<\/em>. We hope       that the next book in the series, <em>Crucible<\/em>, is up to       her previous standards.<\/p>\n<p>After the discussion, we chose seven new books in our       never-ending quest for a good read.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossfire by Nancy Kress Twelve people showed up for the discussion of this first book in the Crossfire series. Of those, five had finished it, three had read part of it, and eight had read Kress before. The book begins when Quakers, Saudis, American Indians, and other groups with enough money to buy passage off [&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-782","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\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}