{"id":23674,"date":"2025-01-01T20:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23674"},"modified":"2025-01-01T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T01:40:39","slug":"the-gate-to-futures-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-gate-to-futures-past\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gate to Futures Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Now we know they didn&#8217;t die off. Instead, the Hoveny hid themselves so well other spacefaring species had no idea they still existed or where. And a thousand years later, a new generation sent ships like this to Cersi &#8212; and who knows where else &#8212; in what I assure you was a very costly attempt to wake technology ancient even to them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Gate to Futures Past<\/strong> by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2016<\/p>\n<p>The Sona is moving through subspace, but Sira and Morgan don&#8217;t know where it&#8217;s taking them. On board are all that remain of the M&#8217;hiray and Om&#8217;ray, the Clan, descendants of the Hoveny. People are getting sick, and the ship only takes orders from Sira &#8212; who&#8217;s inexperienced at giving orders &#8212; so Morgan is worried about getting to their destination.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/this-gulf-of-time-and-stars\/\"><strong>This Gulf of Time and Stars<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about communicating with a difficult AI, being visited by the dead, and dealing with an unknown place.<\/p>\n<p>As she has before, Czerneda brings the story to a startling conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve read 18 books by Czerneda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Now we know they didn&#8217;t die off. Instead, the Hoveny hid themselves so well other spacefaring species had no idea they still existed or where. And a thousand years later, a new generation sent ships like this to Cersi &#8212; and who knows where else &#8212; in what I assure you was a very [&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-23674","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\/23674","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=23674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23746,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23674\/revisions\/23746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}