{"id":11243,"date":"2017-10-12T22:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T02:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2017-10-13T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:52:18","slug":"brightness-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/brightness-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightness Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;<strong>Are we unique?<\/strong> In some Galactic languages, the question does not even parse as sane. One can find a precedent for anything in the archives of a billion years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brightness Reef<\/strong> by David Brin, published in 1995<\/p>\n<p>The world Jijo has been declared fallow by the Galactics. But members of 6 races landed there hundreds of years ago. Their descendants try to live without disturbing anything, although there&#8217;s a bit of disagreement on exactly how to do that. Then the day comes when someone arrives from space &#8212; the Rothen, who claim to be the secret patrons of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 1st book of the 2nd <strong>Uplift<\/strong> trilogy. The <strong>Uplift<\/strong> universe is such a delightful universe, I wanted to read all the stories set in it.<\/p>\n<p>What beliefs would arise on a planet where the people know they&#8217;re not supposed to be there? This, along with the astonishing aliens, are two of the best things.<\/p>\n<p>If you liked the 1st <strong>Uplift<\/strong> trilogy, you&#8217;ll like the 2nd as well &#8212; Brin has astounding details worked out about the beings that populate this universe.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-uplift-war\/\"><strong>The Uplift War<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Are we unique? In some Galactic languages, the question does not even parse as sane. One can find a precedent for anything in the archives of a billion years.&#8221; Brightness Reef by David Brin, published in 1995 The world Jijo has been declared fallow by the Galactics. But members of 6 races landed there [&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-11243","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\/11243","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=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11263,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions\/11263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}