{"id":23578,"date":"2024-12-18T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23578"},"modified":"2024-12-18T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:11:05","slug":"this-gulf-of-time-and-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/this-gulf-of-time-and-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"This Gulf of Time and Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We never should have taken from them&#8230; Never ruined their minds and used them. We could have renounced the M&#8217;hir and Power; been happy as we were. Greed took us down a path with only one ending. You &#8212; were inevitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Gulf of Time and Stars<\/strong> by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2015<\/p>\n<p>When Sira and Morgan arrange for a baby shower for Barac and Ruti and Huido&#8217;s restaurant, Sector Chief Bowman shows up. Eventually they find out that Bowman, who disappears, is accused of taking bribes &#8212; they don&#8217;t believe it. When Sira&#8217;s father, in exile, calls to ask if Bowman is with them Sira decides to visit him &#8212; she doesn&#8217;t particularly want to, but she must know what he knows.<\/p>\n<p>This is the start of the <strong>Reunification<\/strong> trilogy, the 3rd part of the <strong>Clan Chronicles<\/strong>. It follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/rift-in-the-sky\/\"><strong>Rift in the Sky<\/strong><\/a>, but the story jumps back to the future and continues after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/to-trade-the-stars\/\"><strong>To Trade the Stars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about trying to keep your people alive when they&#8217;re being attacked by mysterious beings.<\/p>\n<p>It intersects with the prequel trilogy in a surprising way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 17 books by Czerneda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We never should have taken from them&#8230; Never ruined their minds and used them. We could have renounced the M&#8217;hir and Power; been happy as we were. Greed took us down a path with only one ending. You &#8212; were inevitable.&#8221; This Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2015 [&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-23578","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\/23578","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=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23585,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions\/23585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}