{"id":12643,"date":"2018-07-29T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T20:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12643"},"modified":"2018-07-29T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T23:24:48","slug":"starbridge-3-shadow-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/starbridge-3-shadow-world\/","title":{"rendered":"StarBridge 3: Shadow World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Interrelators study the laws, social customs, mores, taboos &#8212; all facets of the culture and the forces that shaped it. An interrelator&#8217;s goal is to be prepared to live on an alien world, as part of the diplomatic team. They learn to truly understand the point of view, the <strong>mind-set<\/strong> of another species.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>StarBridge 3: Shadow World<\/strong> by A. C. Crispin and Jannean Elliott, published in 1991<\/p>\n<p>Eerin is an Elpind, the newest sentient species the CLS has discovered. While visiting StarBridge Academy he&#8217;s paired with Mark, a human student. Cara, a journalist, is on the asteroid to make a documentary, and she&#8217;s interested in the Elspind as well. They head off on a mission but their ship is hijacked.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about understanding and respecting people who are different from you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another great entry in the series, adding more interesting aliens to the universe.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 7th book I&#8217;ve read by Crispin, and the 1st by Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed the 2nd book in the series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/starbridge-2-silent-dances\/\"><strong>Silent Dances<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Interrelators study the laws, social customs, mores, taboos &#8212; all facets of the culture and the forces that shaped it. An interrelator&#8217;s goal is to be prepared to live on an alien world, as part of the diplomatic team. They learn to truly understand the point of view, the mind-set of another species.&#8221; StarBridge [&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-12643","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\/12643","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=12643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12653,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12643\/revisions\/12653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}