{"id":19846,"date":"2022-10-10T21:39:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T01:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19846"},"modified":"2022-10-10T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T01:39:37","slug":"gypsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/gypsies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gypsies"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “‘You could walk out of the world if you wanted to.’ The Gray Man stopped and bent at the waist to looked into Michael’s eyes. ‘The world has angles other people don’t see. Corners and doors and directions. You could step sideways and never be seen again. Like this.'”<\/p>\n

Gypsies<\/strong> by Robert Charles Wilson, published in 1989<\/p>\n

Karen has been dreaming about the Gray Man. She’s seen him once or twice in real life and so has her son, Michael. When the Gray Man entices Michael to follow him after school, Karen says they’re going to visit her sister Laura in California. But Laura doesn’t exactly live in California — she lives in another world, one that’s a bit nicer.<\/p>\n

It’s about people who have a special ability, people who are afraid of it, and people who want to use it.<\/p>\n

It’s not a typical Wilson story, but it’s worth reading.<\/p>\n

I’ve read 17 of Wilson’s books. I previously reviewed Memory Wire<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “‘You could walk out of the world if you wanted to.’ The Gray Man stopped and bent at the waist to looked into Michael’s eyes. ‘The world has angles other people don’t see. Corners and doors and directions. You could step sideways and never be seen again. Like this.’” Gypsies by Robert Charles Wilson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-19846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19848,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846\/revisions\/19848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}