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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Unlike the previous book which focused solely on human civilization, this book deals with how mutliple races can co-exist on an isolated planet - or not. Mixed in is the misfit human/chimp/dolphin civilization that always seems to find trouble, somehow. Really excellent. (  ) Karlstar | Jan 25, 2009 |  I really enjoyed this series, but the first book is realy slow as the author sets the stage for the later books. I kept having this feeling that I should be able to predict the ending and wasn't overly suprised by it. Unfortunately, it had been a while since I had read Startide Rising and could not remeber the character so I was always a little annoyed. ( ) Gkarlives | Jul 10, 2008 | Jijo mojo nogo. A second Uplift trilogy starts here, and unfortunately it is a big old mess. Nowhere near as entertaining or well done as the other three books. The book is set on an alien world that has been settled by a whole bunch of different alien races, and apparently it has all been done on the shonk, in general. Add in a mystery person and perhaps some ties to the other books, but this one needed some serious plot work to make it readable or make you want to go on with the rest. http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2007/08/brightness-reef-david-brin.html (  ) bluetyson | Jan 11, 2008 | The first of Brin's second Uplift trilogy has a slow start, but the complex array of characters do become quite gripping and the five or so parallel plot lines are handled well. Set on Jijo, a reserved fallow planet, humans and other sapient species have established an understanding until a spaceship lands on the planet. (  ) ascapola | Sep 1, 2007 | The title brings back the feeling of exuberant optimism that Brin fans felt at the beginning of this series, which, sadly, fizzled out into something of a disappointment as this trilogy ended up circling around a galactic sump hole, both literally and metaphorically. wfzimmerman | May 29, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0553573306, Mass Market Paperback)Millennia ago the Five Galaxies decreed the planet Jijo off limits. But in the last thousand years six races have begun resettling Jijo, embracing a pre-industrial life to hide their existence from the Galactics. Overcoming their differences, the Six have built a society based on mutual tolerance for one another and respect for the planet they live on. But that has all changed with an event the Six have feared for hundreds of years: the arrival of an outside ship. Author David Brin has returned to his popular Uplift universe in this, the first book of a new trilogy.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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