Startide Rising / David Brin

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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The Uplift War / David Brin

The Uplift War

category: science fiction, author:

David Brin

book 3 of Uplift
original copyright 1987,
read in July 2011 (and before, several years ago)

Agamedes' opinion: 9 out of 10

We were heading off on holiday. I needed a book to read... (Never be caught with an hour to spare and no book to read!) Picked up The Uplift War...

What a great book! Just as much fun as the first time I read it. And that was long enough ago that the book was still able to surprise me. (Mind you, even when I immediately re-read a book -- I am surprised by how much I missed the first time!)

Unfortunately... I then read another book on that holiday. Came home to re-start yet another... And failed to review Uplift.

So memory has faded.

There was action and adventure. Suspense and humour. Excellent Earthlings -- of several species -- and believable aliens. All tied into a universe so exciting -- so full of possibility -- that you just wish it were true...

Though there is one... over-riding... problem: