{"id":10972,"date":"2017-08-01T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2017-08-01T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T01:26:23","slug":"startide-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/startide-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Startide Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The senior patron races see the Terrans as a threat. They are wolflings, and therefore dangerous. They preach revolutionary uplift practices&#8230; more dangerous still. They are allies of the Tymbrimi, an insult beyond forbearance. And they proselytize &#8212; an unforgivable offense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Startide Rising<\/strong> by David Brin, published in 1983<\/p>\n<p>The Streaker, a ship of dolphins, humans, and a chimpanzee, come upon a huge collection of derelict ships. Now they&#8217;re on the run from some aliens who are upset for some reason. It&#8217;s possible it&#8217;s because of the corpse they brought aboard &#8212; the being is so ancient it might be one of the fabled Progenitors.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/sundiver\/\"><strong>Sundiver<\/strong><\/a>, although it takes place 200 years later.<\/p>\n<p>The uplifted dolphins are fascinating. The story grabbed me right away this time.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the main problem &#8212; being stuck on a planet with a bunch of powerful aliens in orbit who&#8217;ve been chasing you &#8212; is clever.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a variety of sentient creatures, schemes, and mutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;The senior patron races see the Terrans as a threat. They are wolflings, and therefore dangerous. They preach revolutionary uplift practices&#8230; more dangerous still. They are allies of the Tymbrimi, an insult beyond forbearance. And they proselytize &#8212; an unforgivable offense.&#8221; Startide Rising by David Brin, published in 1983 The Streaker, a ship of [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972","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=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11001,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}