David Brin's Out of Time: The Game of Worlds (David Brin's Out of Time!)

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Summary: Face to Face With the Devlin
Review: In the twenty-fourth century, the Earth is a happy and healthy place. War and disease have been wiped out. It is a utopia. Humanity has become peaceful and calm. So when mysterious aliens nicknamed Givers came and gave humanity the ability to reach the stars with transporters, humans were no longer prepared to face the dangers of a new frontier. As special problems arise, they search in time for special individuals with "grit" and bring them forward to help out. Because teleporters don't seem to work with adults, teenagers are the ones yanked to the future.

The final volume of the series (don't know if more were planned). This time a teen from 1999 who seems to be on a downward slide is pulled to the future to help out. Humanity is going to have a meeting with a belligerent race that is able to teleport adults. The first meeting will be very important and lead to a second closer to Earth. A third race will be acting as hosts and mediators. Each side will have eight delegates. The humans have decided to add three teens with grit to their party. Their main goal will be to find out if the aliens have any knowledge of a lost colony that may have survived from the ship Roanoke.

This story takes a long time to really get going. The mission begins about midway through the book. The framework moves even further away from the first book which leads me to believe that series setting was only very loosely worked out. But in the end it is still a good story even if the framework changes are necessary to some of the plot and not just the setting.