Awards Winner (1983) - Nebula Awards - (Novel) Winner (1984) - Hugo Award - (Novel) Contributor(s):Author: David Brin David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.
Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.
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.
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