{"id":785,"date":"2004-08-03T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T16:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=785"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:05:17","slug":"the-wizard-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"The Wizard Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Wizard Hunters<\/em> by Martha Wells<\/h3>\n<p>Of the seven people who showed up for this discussion of       the first book in The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, five had       read the entire book and six had read Wells before. Two       people e-mailed comments and one sent a verbal message.<\/p>\n<p>The trilogy starts 30 years after the <em>The Death of the       Necromancer<\/em> when Ile-Rien is at war with an unknown       enemy, the Gardier. The bombing by the black airships,       along with the early Twentieth Century level of technology,       gives this story the feel of World War II England.       Tremaine, a strong but reluctant heroine,<!--more--> is the only       person who can operate the Damal sphere, which the military       hopes to use as a weapon against the Gardier. Instead, the       sphere transports Tremaine and company to an alternate,       non_tech world that fears magic and wizards. Most of us       found the book entertaining and liked Wells&#8217;s breezy       writing style, but some noted that parts were slow or hard       to figure out, or even seemed contrived. We enjoyed the       chases through the caves and the clash of cultures. We       particularly enjoyed how the non-tech characters figured       out the technology and helped destroy an airship. Although       some of us preferred <em>Necromancer<\/em> or <em>Wheel of the       Infinite<\/em>, we still look forward to reading the next       book in the series, <em>The Ships of Air<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells Of the seven people who showed up for this discussion of the first book in The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, five had read the entire book and six had read Wells before. Two people e-mailed comments and one sent a verbal message. The trilogy starts 30 years after the [&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-785","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\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}