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David Brin: “Startide Rising” (1983) This is a sci fi story about a Terran (Earth) crew of neo-dolphins and humans on the starship “The Streaker”. Their mission is to find information about the first Galactic race, which existed billions of yeas ago.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- David Brin
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 462
- Publisher
- Orbit, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Bantam
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780450012495
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