Product Description

As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants must battle their overlords of face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. THE UPLIFT WAR is the third book in David Brin's magnificent Uplift series. Winner of the Hugo award when it was first published, it is a sweeping, brilliantly crafted story of adventure and wonder from one of the greatest writers of science fiction.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200114 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
'Brin's storytelling abilites come to the fore in THE UPLIFT WAR. He handles a large cast extremely well, and the course of the war is laid out to make a thrilling, nail-biting storyline that moves at neckbreak speed.' VECTOR

About the Author
David Brin is a Hugo and Nebula award winning author of twelve novels, holds a doctorate in astrophysics and has served as a consultant for NASA. He lives in California.

Customer Reviews

Excellent enjoyable science fiction
The other reviewers comments about the quality of the text surprise me, especially since Brin explains that the reason the Thennian ambassador is on such a backward world is because he is not representative of all Thennians.

Its also worth pointing out that I found it exciting that the characters from the second book did not appear (they do appear in later books). The story in this book happens at around the same time as the story in the second novel and I think this style of writing is one reason the Uplift novels are so enjoyable, too many science fiction series start off with small enjoyable stories in the first few books then fly off the handle with later books suffering from covering too large a period of time. Brin instead concentrates on one situation on one planet and thus manages to keep you completely interested.

I do think this is the worst of the series, too much reliance on luck for my liking. However its still an extremely enjoyable read...and like one other reviewer said start with Sundiver.

Once again, innovative with excellent characterisation
Not a devastating book like Brin's "Earth", but still highly entertaining. The third book in the Uplift series, based upon Earths struggling new place in a galactic civilisation of eons old races. This book strives (and to a large extent succeeds) in adding new ideas to a genre where other others just give up and re-invent. It is entertaining and the characters are deep, lifelike (and often amusing, e.g. Ulthac..). Start with book one (sundiver) though!

A well paced inventive novel.
As a stand alone book this is well paced and inventive. Some ideas...such as the use of Patron's Voice...were not fully explored, but maybe we've heard enough of that particular ability in the Dune novels.

As part of a series it doesn't integrate that well with the two that have gone before. There are some references to the 2nd novel but none of the characters feature in this book and one of the clans (Thennanin)seems to be at odds with the characterisation we've been given in previous books.