{"id":23510,"date":"2024-09-27T10:59:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23510"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:59:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T14:59:40","slug":"rift-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/rift-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Rift in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This ability we have will save more lives than it risks. Let the Oud reshape the ground. Sona will &#8216;port to safety. Let our crops fail. We&#8217;ll &#8216;port to another Clan and trade for food. This is the most important Talent ever discovered by Om&#8217;ray and we must never fear to use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rift in the Sky<\/strong> by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2009<\/p>\n<p>Sona was wiped out 83 years ago by the Oud. Now it&#8217;s coming back to life, with people planting plants and having babies. Aryl and Enris visit their human friend Marcus, who shows them some Om&#8217;ray technology. Enris recognizes the clear wafers from his time at Vyna. He informs them that Sona&#8217;s old Adepts are on the discs, waiting to be born again.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/riders-of-the-storm\/\"><strong>Riders of the Storm<\/strong><\/a> and completes the the <strong>Stratification<\/strong> trilogy. The next book in the overarching series continues the story of Sira, Ary&#8217;s great-granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about looking after your clan, and unexpected consequences when your people gain a new ability.<\/p>\n<p>Czerneda often writes about friends who would do anything for each other, as she does here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 16 books by Czerneda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This ability we have will save more lives than it risks. Let the Oud reshape the ground. Sona will &#8216;port to safety. Let our crops fail. We&#8217;ll &#8216;port to another Clan and trade for food. This is the most important Talent ever discovered by Om&#8217;ray and we must never fear to use it.&#8221; Rift [&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-23510","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\/23510","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=23510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23514,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23510\/revisions\/23514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}