David Brin - Uplift Saga

Uplift Saga
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In Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1), the first book in the Uplift series (and my first published novel!), I introduce a future universe in which no species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron -- except perhaps mankind.
Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? And if so, why did they abandon us?
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... to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life. -


In the second book of the Uplift series, Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2) (WINNER: 1983 Nebula, Hugo, and LOCUS Awards for Best Novel), the Terran exploration vessel Streaker, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history, has crashed on the uncharted world of Kithrup.
Above, in space, armadas of alien races clash in a titanic struggle to claim her.
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.


In the third book of the Uplift series, The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) (NY Times Bestseller; WINNER: Hugo and LOCUS Awards for Best Novel, 1988; NOMINEE: 1988 Nebula award for best novel), as galactic armadas search the Five Galaxies in quest of the Streaker, bearer of the secret of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the planet of Garth, an Earth colony.
Humans and their Uplifted allies must battle their conquerors or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies.


The first book in the Uplift Trilogy, Brightness Reef, chronicles life on the planet Jijo, where a million years ago the advanced Buyur civilization held sway.
Then the Buyur abandoned the world, leaving it to rest and restore its ecological balance.
Now the vast civilization of the Five Galaxies uses patrols, guardian machines, and sanctions of law to prevent resettlement until the planet is once more ready for civilized life.


In the second book in the Uplift Trilogy, Infinity's Shore, it is truly the beginning of the end for the fugitive settlers of Jijo.
As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six bands of sapient beings.
Now the human settlers of Jijo and their alien neighbors must make heroic -- and terrifying -- choices.


In the final book in the Uplift Trilogy, Heaven's Reach, the brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived.
Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo -- both human and alien -- brace for a final confrontation.
The Jijoans' only hope is the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and commanded by an untested human.