{"id":836,"date":"2003-12-02T21:33:42","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T21:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=836"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:35:03","slug":"bones-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Bones of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Bones of the Earth<\/em> by Michael Swanwick<\/h3>\n<p>Nine attended with 2 people emailing comments.  Seven people  started the book and 6 finished it.  Five people had read Swanwick  before.<\/p>\n<p>Time travel and dinosaurs, what could be better?  This book was  one of the more popular reads with one reader starting the discussion by  saying &#8220;this was a Book!&#8221;  Many people in our reading group are  interested in dinosaurs, and I <!--more-->suspect not just paleontologists would  want to go back and check out the Jurassic.<\/p>\n<p>The novel begins with researchers given the chance to journey back  in time to study dinosaurs.  Rules for travel are rigid and strictly  enforced by a mysterious Old Man.  The whys and hows of all this are  revealed to the patient, which many of us readers were not.  So we had  nagging doubts through most of the book which weren&#8217;t resolved until the  very end.<\/p>\n<p>We noticed that the author didn&#8217;t spend time explaining time travel  or its paradoxes figuring that readers were already familiar with them  (which we were), which left more time for&#8211; dinosaurs!  It was obvious  to everyone that Swanwick had really done his homework and it made for a  solid read.  We all caught and enjoyed the reference to Ray Bradbury&#8217;s  &#8220;A Sound of Thunder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was Swanwick&#8217;s writing, the dinosaur themes or both, we would recommend this one as a fun, quick read.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Judy Strange<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick Nine attended with 2 people emailing comments. Seven people started the book and 6 finished it. Five people had read Swanwick before. Time travel and dinosaurs, what could be better? This book was one of the more popular reads with one reader starting the discussion by saying &#8220;this [&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-836","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\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}