- Fiction, Life on other planets, Life on other planets in fiction, Science fiction
David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written.
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Classical in form, contemporary, epic and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David Brin
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 585
- Publisher
- Heyne Verlag, Orbit, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781405514392
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Life on other planets
- Life on other planets in fiction
- Science fiction
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- Vie extraterrestre
- Romans, nouvelles
- Fiction, science fiction, genetic engineering
- Fiction, science fiction, alien contact
- Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure
- Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
- Pioneers
About David Brin · 1950
American scientist and science fiction author
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