Startide Rising

David Brin

Book 2 of The Uplift Saga

Language: English

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Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction - High Tech

Publisher: Spectra

Published: Jan 2, 1983

Awards: Hugo.Best Novel.Winner.1984, Nebula.Best Novel.Winner.1984
List Of Awards: Hugo, Nebula
Date Read: Sep 26, 2013
Form: Novel
Pages: 583
Read Status: read
Shelves: read
Word Count: 138277

Description:

Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race.  But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind? The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history.  Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.