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Summary: A little long but very good
Review: Unlike the book before it, I was unable to put this one down! Quite a page turner. Brin seems to write two types of books: the ones that you can't put down from the start, and the ones you have to force yourself to finish.Fortunately, this one falls under the first category. Finally, after struggling to complete Brightness Reef (one of the slowest Brin Novels I think I have ever read. I finished two other book while still reading that one.) everything seems to fall into place. I would definitely recommend this book, but it's a shame you have to read Brightness Reef to fully appreciate it. Oh well. Can't win 'em all.
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Summary: Racism-pointless
Review: What had been an excellent series from a great author has degenerated into the conventional anti-white philia that permeates literature in America now.
The making of a "new" Character "Black" tho handled slowly was pointless to plot other than detracting with thoughts of race or genetical issue. Since none were forthcoming the sole purpose becomes that of making sure the America SF community is aware that White females even in future on isolated planets will be found by "Black" males.
Why do authors have this "need" to do this? There was no reason to mention color at all. Actually if one is not prejudice then it would not have been inserted!
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Summary: I can't wait for book three.
Review: What is truly remarkable about the entire uplift series is how Brin has peopled (if that's the right word) his universe with vastly diverse alien races, each one consistent and each one believable on its own terms. By the end of this book, I felt as if I knew what it would be like to have wheels instead of legs, or to be a stack of semi-autonomous doughnut-shaped chemical factories. The story will also kept me enthralled. I can't wait to see what happens in book three.
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Summary: Brin's Tale of High Adventure Continues!
Review: When I read Startide Rising, the initial book of the Uplift Series that continues in Infinities Shore, I knew immediately that I had found a new favorite author. Heinlein and Asimov were gone and the other Deans of hard science fiction were aging.. Here was hope for those of us not in love with Cyberpunk! David Brin had not only brought a unigue vision to us but a new style of writing too. His universe is based on the concept of Uplift, that all the intellegent races in the universe were the direct result of intervention by older races. When a race is uplifted, it owes the race performing the uplift a period of servitude. That the Humans of Earth are not a part of this pattern is a key element in this series of books. Considered "Wolflings" , a species that has uplifted itselt has led to humans being hated by just about every other race in the five galaxies. What is even more irritating to the elder races is that humans have now uplifted chimps and dolphins thus laying claim to being an elder race themselves! In Startide Rising, an eath ship manned by a crew of humans, dolphins, and chimps have discovered a very dangerous and precious prize...the remains of a fleet of ships which may have belonged to the Ancients the race who began the original uplift! From that point the chase is on by all the other races in the galaxy who seek to use this discovery to their own advantage. This universe of the thrilling chase is the universe found in Brightness Reef the first book of the current trilogy which introduces the reader to the planet Jijo and its six "sooner races" which have sought refuge on this forbidden world. All of these races are voluntary exiles from the five galaxies trying to build a civilization together in secret. To be discovered by the rest of the galactic civilization is to face death. That discovery is the focus of this first book.
Now in the second volume, Infinity's Shore, the Streaker, fugitive ship of humans, dolphins and chimps once again enters the picture! Brin's world is complex and vast and watching him bring it all together is as much fun as the adventure itself. His thrilling mulitthreaded style makes his books hard to put down and his vision is so innovative that he is probably the only writer who has ever made a alien species with wheels believeable! There are many suprises in Infinity's Shore just as in the previous novels and if you like hard science fiction, this is the author for you. Read all of Brin's Uplift books and in fact anything written by him, and you will not be disappointed! Heinlein has a worth sucessor! Thank Infni
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Summary: Stunning stunning stunning stunning.
Review: With Infinity's shore Brin has taken what was a detailed and complex world from Brightness Reef (Book 4 in the uplift saga) and brought events forward to a real pitch of excitement. He has the ability to weave greater and greater complexity into a plot that spans aeons of time, billions of years of planning, coming to a heady conclusion. It isn't just the variety of races, each well explored in personality and physical traits. It isn't just the sheer number of plot threads that makes this a brilliant series. And it is not just the vision of such a universe. It is the way Brin combines all the serried elements together with such consummate literary skill. His prose is excellent and lapses into the poetic. The uplift saga has to be one of the greatest achievements in science fiction writing, and deserves recognition from mainstream literary critics. In this volume Brin reintroduces us to the remainder of the Streaker crew who fled Kithrup in Startide Rising (book 2) while continuing to develop the characters of the sooner races on Jijo. And he demonstrates what makes a Jophur of a Traeki. I can say no more without giving away plot elements. Read it!
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Summary: Stunning stunning stunning stunning.
Review: With Infinity's shore Brin has taken what was a detailed and complex world from Brightness Reef (Book 4 in the uplift saga) and brought events forward to a real pitch of excitement. He has the ability to weave greater and greater complexity into a plot that spans aeons of time, billions of years of planning, coming to a heady conclusion. It isn't just the variety of races, each well explored in personality and physical traits. It isn't just the sheer number of plot threads that makes this a brilliant series. And it is not just the vision of such a universe. It is the way Brin combines all the serried elements together with such consummate literary skill. His prose is excellent and lapses into the poetic. The uplift saga has to be one of the greatest achievements in science fiction writing, and deserves recognition from mainstream literary critics. In this volume Brin reintroduces us to the remainder of the Streaker crew who fled Kithrup in Startide Rising (book 2) while continuing to develop the characters of the sooner races on Jijo. And he demonstrates what makes a Jophur of a Traeki. I can say no more without giving away plot elements. Read it!
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Summary: A Brief Note on David Brin's body of Work
Review: With this second installment of the second Uplift Trilogy (why not just 5 in a series?), Brin has recovered his grip on his amazing tale of the future. I was fearful that with Brightness Reef he had stumbled into Wingrove-ism, that is creating something so big, so multifaceted and intricate that, though enjoyable just like Chung-Kuo, it becomes unwieldly, ponderously slow and collapses under its own weight. However, Brin has once again proven himself a master of the craft and the savior of the space epic. I agree that only Cherryh and Brin are convincingly and excitingly portraying the awesome machinations and wars of stellar empires and races in the cosmos at large. Brin has the added touch of high concept and in-depth science: that is he delves into the future history and evolves cultures and races on convincing clarity and civilizations with life and purpose. His science and philosophy is profound, and as can be found in the Uplift theory in general and the neochims and neofins in specific, it is
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