{"id":22205,"date":"2023-09-21T19:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T23:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22205"},"modified":"2023-09-21T19:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T23:40:30","slug":"emperor-swords-pentacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/emperor-swords-pentacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor, Swords, Pentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Sometimes he scented small animals, but they did not run in fear because none on this world recognized the smell of Predatory Cat.&nbsp; He ran uphill over stones and downhill through rank grass with the savage joy of the marauding Hillsman, fear for Emerald compressed to a small knot in his belly, and the skin of Civilization, if only for a few hours, grown very thin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emperor, Swords, Pentacles<\/strong> by Phyllis Gotlieb, published in 1982<\/p>\n<p>When dangerous people come to Qsaprinel to steal something from it, Emperor Spinel-alpha decides he must go off world to find out what it is. Meanwhile, Kinnear is Sector Co-ordinator. He&#8217;s going through various planets and when he gets to Qsaprinel his Director tells him to leave that one alone. Then he gets a package from Ungruwarkh, a picture cube with a message from Khreng and Prandra.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-judgment-of-dragons\/\"><strong>A Judgment of Dragons<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reading Phyllis Gotlieb is a bit like reading Frank Herbert &#8212; you don&#8217;t understand everything, but what you do understand is worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>She does a terrific job of creating alien races and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 4 books by Gotlieb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Sometimes he scented small animals, but they did not run in fear because none on this world recognized the smell of Predatory Cat.&nbsp; He ran uphill over stones and downhill through rank grass with the savage joy of the marauding Hillsman, fear for Emerald compressed to a small knot in his belly, and the [&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-22205","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\/22205","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=22205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22210,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22205\/revisions\/22210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}