{"id":3305,"date":"2009-01-13T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/13\/icarus-at-the-edge-of-time-by\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T09:26:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:26:19","slug":"icarus-at-the-edge-of-time-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/13\/icarus-at-the-edge-of-time-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Icarus at the Edge of Time, by Brian Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, Brian Greene Writes a Kid&#8217;s Book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is a very odd book. It&#8217;s printed on boards, like a book for very small children, but the story is a bit beyond what I would imagine reading to a normal kid of the age to want books of that format. It&#8217;s too short and simple, though, to have much appeal to significantly older children, aside from the fact that the story is written over the top of 15 absolutely <i>gorgeous<\/i> reproductions of pictures of astronomical objects.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably one of those objects whose cool appearance is the only real reason for the thing to exist. The pictures really are spectacular, and make it worth a look even if the story isn&#8217;t all that special. Then again, I say that as a jaded lifelong SF reader and scientist&#8211; to a young reader with less exposure to these ideas, it might very well be a mind-blowing experience.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what SteelyKid thinks in a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, Brian Greene Writes a Kid&#8217;s Book&#8230; This is a very odd book. It&#8217;s printed on boards, like a book for very small children, but the story is a bit beyond what I would imagine reading to a normal kid of the age to want books of that format. It&#8217;s too short and simple, though,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/13\/icarus-at-the-edge-of-time-by\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Icarus at the Edge of Time, by Brian Greene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18,51,52,29],"tags":[83,92,88,117],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booklog","category-books","category-physics_books","category-science_books","category-sf","tag-books-2","tag-physics-2","tag-science-2","tag-sf-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}