{"id":12678,"date":"2018-08-06T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2018-08-10T19:27:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:27:49","slug":"starbridge-5-silent-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/starbridge-5-silent-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"StarBridge 5: Silent Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “To the herd, the world consisted of warm water, easy travel, and good food. Through them, Jib had seen their River, traveled their ocean, tasted a hundred water plants, and and drunk the rich cream-laden milk of Taniwha’s mother. He’d wallowed in so many mental flavors, he had to be reminded to eat real food.”<\/p>\n

StarBridge 5: Silent Songs<\/strong> by A. C. Crispin & Kathleen O’Malley, published in 1994<\/p>\n

Tesa is still on Trinity, living with the Grus. Dr. Rob sends her a couple of students — her former roommate Jib, who may have Telepathic Sensitivity Syndrome, and K’heera, a Simiu who’s ashamed of what others in her family have done. They make contact with a new aquatic species — and then some aliens land who plan on taking over the planet.<\/p>\n

This is a sequel to Silent Dances<\/strong><\/a>. It’s about working together, and paying attention to all your friends.<\/p>\n

With an antagonistic species threatening our heroes, this is a fairly different book in the series — although also very successful. It feels a bit like an Uplift<\/strong> book.<\/p>\n

This is the 9th book I\u2019ve read by Crispin, and the 2nd by O’Malley.<\/p>\n

I previously reviewed the 4th book in the series, Serpent’s Gift<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “To the herd, the world consisted of warm water, easy travel, and good food. Through them, Jib had seen their River, traveled their ocean, tasted a hundred water plants, and and drunk the rich cream-laden milk of Taniwha’s mother. He’d wallowed in so many mental flavors, he had to be reminded to eat real […]<\/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-12678","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\/12678","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=12678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12678\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}