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| Original Title: | Brightness Reef |
| ISBN: | 0553573306 (ISBN13: 9780553573305) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Uplift Storm Trilogy #1, The Uplift Saga #4 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1996), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1996), Seiun Award 星雲賞 Nominee for Best Translated Novel (2002) |
David Brin
Paperback | Pages: 661 pages Rating: 3.9 | 9574 Users | 177 Reviews
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David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony. Then a strange starship arrives on Jijo. Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse--a band of criminals willing to destroy the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes?
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| Title | : | Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | David Brin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 661 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 1996 by Spectra (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
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This happens to be one of those books that is both brilliant and lacking at the same time. I will explain myself. The novel is actually quite as daunting and impressive as Startide Rising and The Uplift War in it's way, but it's mainly because Brin doesn't ever stint on world building. Ever. He goes all out and develops tons of alien races, tons of characters, and a great many implications for the amazingly complex alien culture among the 16 galaxies. Truly, I have nothing bad to say at allBrin is an excellent writer, no matter that his cosmology and worldview is upwhacked. In particular, the Uplift series of books are especially inventive and entertaining.
Lonely planet left for recuperation for next settlers is actually occupied by 6 different races of refugee aliens including humans. Every faction has secrets and ambitions, but till now they manage to live together in peace. After starship arrives everything changes. And to mix it all up strange man who cannot speak and do not remember his past is rescued at sea.Caution! This book is intended as only part of trilogy as it leaves many questions unanswered, so be prepared and forewarned :)
Lots of good talking points in this return to Brin's Uplift universe: interrogating ideas of humanity and sapience, cultural imperialism, and feminist commentary. But it's just so damn long and unwieldy!
I quite liked this book, though it took better than a hundred pages to get into it. The story was very different than I expected it to be, and I never quite got used to the two different first person narratives. The third person narrative was much better.All throughout the book, I wondered if using six different races was such a good idea. Since only one of them was human, it took a while to figure out what the other races were like, and why they were the way they were. I never really got a feel
I read the first three Uplift novels back when they were fairly new, and since then they've been one of my favorite brainy space opera series. Recently I marathoned through the initial trilogy again and was pleased to discover there were three more books in the series since then.The Uplift books are a great mix of adventure, world-building, and scientific speculation, and the alien races portrayed in these books are especially great. "Brightness Reef" took me a little longer to get into compared
Six sentient species live together secretly in hard-won harmony on the planet Jijo, which the almighty Galactics have decreed to be left unsettled. All goes well until their discovery by a starship crewed by humans with a mysterious purpose throws everything into chaos and uncertainty.David Brin is telling a big story here. The planet and the various alien cultures upon it are meticulously detailed and his concept of Uplift, whereby races achieve sentience and admittance to a heavily stratified
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