{"id":842,"date":"2003-11-04T21:36:45","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T21:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=842"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:37:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T21:37:47","slug":"jenna-starborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Starborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Jenna <\/em><em>Starborn<\/em> by ArmadilloCon 26&#8217;s GOH, Sharon       Shinn<\/h3>\n<p>Twelve people attended this discussion and 3 others emailed       in their comments. Eight people started the book with five       reading to the end. The same five had all read this author       before.<\/p>\n<p>Using the classic <em>Jane Eyre<\/em> as the basis for a science       fiction novel intrigued some readers while others were more       ambivalent. The source material was easy to identify with a       few updated twists, such as a cyborg wife instead of a crazy       one. Plus in this retelling our heroine is a vat-grown,       plucky nuclear reactor technician. There is a governess who       is ruined by a lover, but needless to say Jenna<!--more--> manages to       eventually find true love with her own Everett. Some people       enjoyed ferreting out the similarities between the books       while others liked the non <em>JE<\/em> parts better.<\/p>\n<p>One reader called it &#8220;a serious chick novel&#8221; that needed more       action. The women present rejected this label. But another       reader found the book very readable &#8220;in a Gothic romance kind       of way&#8221; and thought it would be a good book to introduce       young girls to SF.<\/p>\n<p>We speculated on the author&#8217;s motivations for using <em>JE<\/em> as a framework. Trying to retrofit moral and social values       from 1847 to the far future was like squeezing the future       into a Victorian corset for some readers. The concept of a       rigidly tiered caste system was seen as interesting but       implausible in today&#8217;s morality. But others liked her       Pan-Equist religion and accepted the reasons for why some       areas of research still thrived and why some things did not       get attention or improvement.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, we thought this was an interesting literary       experiment and wondered what other works could be retrofitted       to SF.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Judy Strange<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Starborn by ArmadilloCon 26&#8217;s GOH, Sharon Shinn Twelve people attended this discussion and 3 others emailed in their comments. Eight people started the book with five reading to the end. The same five had all read this author before. Using the classic Jane Eyre as the basis for a science fiction novel intrigued some [&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-842","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\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}