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Sep 1, 1983 · Startide Rising is the second book in David Brin’s Uplift Saga. The first, Sundiver , is nothing to write home about, but this one was a runaway critical success – taking the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards in 1984 (the year I was born).
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I have this as part of an old hard back titled EARTHCLAN, which contains both Startide Rising and the sequel, The Uplift War. Startide is fantastic as you describe, and I remember liking The Uplift War, which if I remember correctly focuses more on the Uplifted Chimps rather than the Dolphins. Good stuff.
Startide Rising is a 1983 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, the second book of six set in his Uplift Universe (preceded by Sundiver and followed by The Uplift War). It earned both Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel in 1984. It was revised by the author in 1993 to correct errors and omissions from the original edition.
Feb 17, 2024 · A good thing I did, as Startide Rising contains just about everything I want some science fiction. For the uninitiated, ‘uplifting’ is a sci-fi method by which animals can be granted sentience. In Brin’s universe, humanity has uplifted chimpanzees and dolphins, granting them human-level intelligence and working alongside them to explore ...
He certainly wasn't the first to write a book with a huge cast of characters and each chapter following a single character, but Startide Rising definitely feels like it refined and popularized that narrative style into the modern space opera, and of course that has been a super-popular method of telling big fantasy and sci fi stories in the ...
One thing I found intriguing about Startide Rising is that the very background details and bare setup of the story could've made a novel in themselves. The book concerns the star ship Streaker; humanity's first ship crewed almost entirely by Phen, as Neo dolphins are called. As the book opens, Streaker has made an astounding discovery, a ...
May 25, 2021 · Startide Rising is the second book in the Uplift Saga series by David Brin. The first book introduced us to aliens and to uplifted chimpanzees ("chims") and dolphins ("fins"). This book embeds in the crew of the first star ship crewed primarily by dolphins.
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