{"id":794,"date":"2004-06-15T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=794"},"modified":"2012-04-24T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T16:59:04","slug":"whole-wide-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Whole Wide World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Whole Wide World<\/em> by Paul McAuley<\/h3>\n<p>Ten people showed up for this discussion, and one person       e-mailed comments. Everyone tried to read the book, but       only six finished. Of the five who thought they remembered       reading the author before, most liked his previous work       better. <em>Whole Wide World<\/em> is a near-future, police       procedural set in London after an InfoWar. Despite the       extreme right-wing government&#8217;s wide use of surveillance       cameras, crime and pornography are rampant.<\/p>\n<p>We found this book lacking as a science fiction and as a       murder mystery. Most of us quickly became bored by the       mystery. The police detective pegs the killer<!--more--> early on, but       needs to figure out how the killer got into the victim&#8217;s       apartment without being seen by the cameras. This turns out       to be via, as one reader called it, &#8220;the abysmal gadget of       redemption.&#8221; Although the book was billed as a       technothriller, the technology was old and the &#8220;thrill&#8221; was       missing. We wanted more science fiction&#8211;at least more       about the InfoWar.<\/p>\n<p>McAuley&#8217;s writing is readable, and his detective is       well-characterized (though unprofessional in his handling       of the investigation), but we found the book too       uninteresting to recommend.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Wide World by Paul McAuley Ten people showed up for this discussion, and one person e-mailed comments. Everyone tried to read the book, but only six finished. Of the five who thought they remembered reading the author before, most liked his previous work better. Whole Wide World is a near-future, police procedural set in [&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-794","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\/794","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=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}