{"75391":{"#nid":"75391","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Goonan\u0027s \u0022This Shared Dream\u0022 on Salon\u0027s \u0027Best Overlooked Sci Fi\u0027 List","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cAlthough \u003Cstrong\u003EKathleen Ann Goonan\u2019s\u003C\/strong\u003E 2007 novel \u201cIn War Times\u201d won the John Campbell Award, it\u2019s been relatively neglected ever since, uninvited into the upper ranks of the fannish canon of 21st-century SF\u2026Her utopian themes are inspiring. And her sly depiction of warping realities is worthy of Philip K. Dick. In short, this novel reads like Thomas Pynchon\u2019s \u201cGravity\u2019s Rainbow,\u201d seeded with Christopher Priest\u2019s \u201cThe Separation\u201d and watered with some of Michael Moorcock\u2019s multiversal inventions. It should really be on every fan\u2019s shortlist of best books of the past decade. Now comes the sequel, which has been reviewed only lightly since its midyear release. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/deeplink?mid=36889\u0026amp;id=FYUtulI7nw4\u0026amp;murl=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2Fbooksearch%2FISBNInquiry.asp%3FEAN%3D%209780765313546%26\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u201cThis Shared Dream\u201d\u003C\/a\u003E \u2026The urgent necessity for our species to master its worst impulses and take charge of its own destiny \u2014 a core tenet of the SF genre \u2014 has seldom been conveyed with such emotional and intellectual force.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Goonan is visiting professor in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. \u003Cem\u003EReview by Paul Di Filippo appears in \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/18\/the_overlooked_sci_fi_of_2011\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESalon\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;courtesy of Barnes and Noble Book Review, December 18, 2011\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2011-12-22 11:49:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:16","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Terry Maple","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/18\/the_overlooked_sci_fi_of_2011\/","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10732","name":"Kathleen Ann Goonan"},{"id":"167171","name":"science fiction"},{"id":"14581","name":"This Shared Dream"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}