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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. my friend lent me this and i had to put it down, I'm not sure why the author felt it necessary to reitterate the differences between bottlenose and steno dolphins every couple pages, but did not decide to endure the rest of the book to find out (  )michaeleconomy | Jan 28, 2009 |   aka Dolphins in Space. Sounds stupid but this book is a cracker. Dont waste your time with the rest of the series. This one is the bomb. (  )skystyler | Aug 20, 2008 | One of my favorite Sci-Fi books. You are just plopped into the middle of this immense saga without warning. The sheer array of aliens is boggling and each one has a totally different motivation. The shifting alliances, vast battles, and human drama just drew me in and would not let me go. The crew of the Streeker trying to survive on cunning against odds a Vegas card shark would never even consider. (  )Gkarlives | Jul 10, 2008 | By far the best book of this series, Startide Rising can be read independently if you choose. (  )TadAD | May 20, 2008 | 1  http://www.nicholaswhyte.info/sf/hn2.... Probably the best of Brin's Uplift sequence of books (though I have faithfully bought each of the others and only been slightly disappointed). A ship crewed by genetically modified dolphins and humans has discovered a secret that threatens to upset the balance of galactic politics; they are pursued by all manner of horrible non-human races. ( )nwhyte | Jan 25, 2008 | 0.252 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553234951, Mass Market Paperback)David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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