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I've heard many good things about this trilogy & author, but I found Sundiver awful the couple of times I tried it. I never finished the brick or even penetrated too far, but it's been a long time since I last tried. In review, one of my GR friends wrote that the books & writing got better. Someone else wrote this one stood alone well, so I'm planning on only reading book 3 of a trilogy.
I think this was a good choice. The author relates enough about the world & first books (I guess) that I don' ...more
I think this was a good choice. The author relates enough about the world & first books (I guess) that I don' ...more
I enjoyed the re-read after many years. But some of the attitudes seem kind of... old-fashioned? It reads like a story written by a child of the 50s, a reader of Robert Heinlein. I suppose it should read that way because both things are probably true.
This is a future universe where other alien races have "discovered" Earth. In this universe all prestige/power comes from the process of "uplift", taking another species and crafting them into intelligent, productive citizens of the galaxy. Earth, u ...more
This is a future universe where other alien races have "discovered" Earth. In this universe all prestige/power comes from the process of "uplift", taking another species and crafting them into intelligent, productive citizens of the galaxy. Earth, u ...more
In my opinion the best of Brin's uplift books.
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James
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