Startide Rising
(Uplift #2)
by David Brin
science fiction
copyright 1983, revised 1993
rated 9 out of 10: really, really good
Humanity thumbing its nose at all the power-mad aliens of the Five Galaxies! Humanity working with intelligent dolphins and a chimpanzee scientist.
What's not to like?!
Okay, the various alien races are a bit too easy to fool. They spend too much time fighting and killing each other. While underestimating the capabilities of the combined races of Earth.
Ah! Who cares!
Startide is action, adventure, cunning schemes and heroic characters, from start to finish. With a huge range of creepy, cruel and cowardly aliens to maintain (most of) the conflict.
A broad sweep of imagination backed by believable -- very futuristic -- science. Set in a universe where the plenitude principle is in full force: everything that can happen will happen eventually. And, in Brin's universe, it probably already has...
Read, enjoy, and look for more books in the Uplift series...
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25oct21:
I read this book again... and enjoyed it again
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1 comment:
February 2018:
Read it (yet) again. Still good :-)
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