{"id":18188,"date":"2021-12-19T20:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T01:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18188"},"modified":"2021-12-19T20:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T01:43:50","slug":"the-children-of-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/the-children-of-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children of the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Broodkenning was an essential part of Tinish civilization, a cross between marriage counsellor, animal breeder, and reconstructive surgeon&#8230; It took real skill to properly recommend which puppies should go with which packs or whether a whole new pack should be made. It took ever greater talent to create well-functioning packs from adult singletons and duos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Children of the Sky<\/strong> by Vernor Vinge, published in 2011<\/p>\n<p>Two years after the Battle on Starship Hill, Ravna Bergsndot is gradually waking up the children who were in stasis. When some Tropicals come ashore in a ship, Johanna and Pilgrim rescue some who would have drowned. Johanna, a human, believes that singleton Tines have value &#8212; but almost every else things they are less. Meanwhile, Vendacious reaches out to the rich Tycoon and tries to trick him into helping him get back at Woodcarver.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/a-fire-upon-the-deep\/\"><strong>A Fire Upon the Deep<\/strong><\/a>. If you enjoyed the 1st novel, you&#8217;ll definitely want to find out what happens to these characters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about rebuilding civilization, people&#8217;s skepticism for things they only have one person&#8217;s word about, and betrayal from someone you thought was your friend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 6 books by Vinge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Broodkenning was an essential part of Tinish civilization, a cross between marriage counsellor, animal breeder, and reconstructive surgeon&#8230; It took real skill to properly recommend which puppies should go with which packs or whether a whole new pack should be made. It took ever greater talent to create well-functioning packs from adult singletons and [&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-18188","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\/18188","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=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18252,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions\/18252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}