![]() ![]() David Brin's bold newest novel explores the ultimate question: Billions of planets may be ripe for life, even intelligence. Is Existence: an uplift "prequel"? In many ways, yes. ![]() The stirring saga that begins with Sundiver continues in Startide Rising and climaxes in The Uplift War.Ī second uplift series begins with Brightness Reef, continues with Infinity's Shore, and concludes with Heaven's Reach. Should its inhabitants be allowed to exist? But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind? Earth has no known link to the Progenitors - and that terrifies client and patron species alike. The uplift series of novels and short stories is set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" (genetically brought to sapience) by a patron race, which then "owns" the uplifted species for 100,000 years. Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1), is the first book in the Uplift series - and also David Brin's first published novel. ![]() to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life. Under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history, a journey into the boiling inferno of the sun. ![]() Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? And if so, why did they abandon us? In all the universe, no species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron - except perhaps mankind. ![]()
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