{"id":26326,"date":"2022-12-09T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T03:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26326"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:00:45","slug":"%f0%9f%93%9a-startide-rising-by-david-brin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/09\/%f0%9f%93%9a-startide-rising-by-david-brin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Startide Rising by David Brin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1389,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/3221e8d5-c1b0-4888-8e51-1fc659b3f0b6&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>59\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/3221e8d5-c1b0-4888-8e51-1fc659b3f0b6\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a> 1984 Hugo Best Novel<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins in space! Which sounds jokey, but it\u2019s not at all. Minimal connections to Sundiver, other than being in the same universe, but 200 years later. I really enjoyed this &#8211; the uplifted dolphins are a neat choice for a spacefaring crew, and Brin mixes in touches of plenty other alien races as they battle each other and chase the dolphins for the secret they stumbled across. Brin also does a good job of making this part of a much larger universe, dropping in bits and pieces and adding mysteries that don\u2019t get solved, without making it frustrating or feeling like a tease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/09\/%f0%9f%93%9a-startide-rising-by-david-brin\/dbac017c-bca9-428f-b2e5-0cf223571005\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DBAC017C-BCA9-428F-B2E5-0CF223571005-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Startide Rising\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DBAC017C-BCA9-428F-B2E5-0CF223571005-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DBAC017C-BCA9-428F-B2E5-0CF223571005-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DBAC017C-BCA9-428F-B2E5-0CF223571005-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DBAC017C-BCA9-428F-B2E5-0CF223571005-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/DBAC017C-BCA9-428F-B2E5-0CF223571005-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphins in space! Which sounds jokey, but it\u2019s not at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4200,2012,3313,4201],"class_list":["post-26326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-david-brin","tag-hugoaward","tag-hugobestnovel","tag-uplift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51250,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326\/revisions\/51250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}