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by David Brin (Author)
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  • Unknown Binding: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Easton Press; Collector's ed edition (1994)
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0006QU79W
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars NEVER SO LATE., 10 Jan 2002
By m842@rocketmail.com (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Startide Rising (Uplift) (Paperback)
I am sorry that I havent read this and other Uplift books before. But better to read late than never. In this book with the background given in SUN DIVER (First book of Uplift Saga), you find yourself in a forgotton corner of the uplift universe. With the dolphins and man as a team (though it is weird for the ancient galactics to work as a team for the clients and masters) earthlings are against all universe. Usually when reading a book you put yourself in the place of the main character. In this book in each chapter you view the galaxy with the eyes of one of the characters. Though it is sometimes tiresome to try to reach the speed of the events, David Brin made it fantastically wonderful. Also the thought mechanisms of eatiees and uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees are well plotted. Time to time I asked myself whether David Brin live among those eatiees.
It is a MUST BE READ book for not only sci-fi lovers only but fiction lovers as well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Uplifted dolphins and politics in Space, 20 May 2004
By julian halls (Wymondham, Norfolk United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Startide Rising (Uplift) (Paperback)
The second book in the uplift series but in reality part 1 of the Uplift Wars.A good read which is more about the dirty politics of alien cultures including our own, but it maintains the readers interest despite never properly addressing the cause of the problem which no doubt is to come in the Uplift Wars proper.
Early on, one is left thinking that the author will struggle to hold your interest until the end but the tension builds nicely and the conceptual originality which started in Sundiver builds nicely.
The dictionary at the front is useful and considerably helps in interpretation and understanding. The end is very clever and keeps you guessing.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book - the key book in both trilogies, 19 Mar 2002
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I think some reviewers have missed the point when they say that books in this trilogy (and the next one) are disjointed. I think Brin has seen that authors of double trilogies often end up telling convoluted stories across large periods of time and large areas of space. This usually results in an unsatisfactory mess with a bad conclusion that leaves you unsatisfied.

Brin instead concentrates each book on one situation in one place. Although the situation always has relevance to what went before its up to you to work out for yourself how the books relate. Thats what makes it enjoyable to read but it also allows each book to be read in isolation.

Enjoy the fact that there are different characters in the uplift books, thats what makes them so constantly interesting (in my opinion).

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