{"id":1270,"date":"2010-08-08T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2012-07-06T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T03:29:38","slug":"icarus-at-the-edge-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/icarus-at-the-edge-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Icarus at the Edge of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><i>Icarus at the Edge of Time<\/i><\/h3>\n<p><b>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/physics\/fac-bios\/Greene\/faculty.html\">Brian Greene<\/a><\/b><br \/>\n[cover name=icarusattheedgeoftime]<\/p>\n<p>This is an unusual book. It&#8217;s a retelling of the Greek <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Icarus\">Icarus<\/a> myth, about a young man who uses wings made of wax to fly. Unfortunately, he flies too high, his wings melt, and he falls to his death. Fortunately, this version isn&#8217;t so depressing. <i>Icarus at the Edge of Time<\/i> is set on a spaceship in the future, and this Icarus is a teenage genius who flies too close to a black hole. He survives, but things don&#8217;t work out quite the way he expected.<\/p>\n<p><i>Icarus at the Edge of Time<\/i> looks like a book for kids &#8211; it&#8217;s a board book with only 44 pages, and there are only a few sentences per page. Mostly, it&#8217;s illustrated with photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. The story isn&#8217;t particularly complex, either. However, it&#8217;s a neat little story, and it does involve actual physics. It might be a good book to read with your children, if you want to get them talking about science, but I think it&#8217;s neat enough that you can enjoy it as an adult, too. I did.<\/p>\n<p>The author, Brian Greene, has written a couple of big books about physics. If you are expecting more of the same, except for kids, you&#8217;ll be disappointed. If you are looking for a serious sci-fi version of the Icarus story, you&#8217;ll be disappointed. It&#8217;s somewhere in between the two. It uses the Icarus story to introduce a little science and have some fun along the way.<\/p>\n<p>I linked to Brian Greene&#8217;s official college website at the top of this review, but the book itself has another site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusattheedgeoftime.com\"><tt>icarusattheedgeoftime.com<\/tt><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[starratingmulti id=&#8221;1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Where to Find It<\/h3>\n<p>[librarylist]<\/p>\n<p>[librarydate]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icarus at the Edge of Time <\/p>\n<p>by Brian Greene [cover name=icarusattheedgeoftime]<\/p>\n<p>This is an unusual book. It&#8217;s a retelling of the Greek Icarus myth, about a young man who uses wings made of wax to fly. Unfortunately, he flies too high, his wings melt, and he falls to his death. Fortunately, this version isn&#8217;t so [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[192,188,85,105],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction-fiction","tag-physics","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-space","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clintryan.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}