Sci Fi with dolphins helping humans in war
Dates: 6/8/03,1:52 PM through 6/9/03,2:39 PM (4 postings)
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FROM: "Ricki Nordmeyer" <[removed]@skokielibrary.info>
REC'D: 6/8/03, 1:52 PM
FROM: "Smith, Jeff" <[removed]@marshall.usc.edu>
REC'D: 6/8/03, 2:17 PM
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> From: Ricki Nordmeyer [[removed]@skokielibrary.info]
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 11:51 AM
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> Subject: RE: Sci Fi with dolphins helping humans in war
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> Hello all
> One of our patrons is looking for a science fiction book
> about humans who teach dolphins to speak and then use the
> dolphins in war. He thinks it was written before 1980. He
> read it in Russian but he says its by an American author.
> Anyone have any ideas
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FROM: "Tara Scholtz" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 6/8/03, 8:52 PM
Tara R. Scholtz
[removed]@hotmail.com
Greenbelt Branch
Prince George's County Memorial Library System, Maryland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricki Nordmeyer" <[removed]@skokielibrary.info>
One of our patrons is looking for a science fiction book about humans
who teach dolphins to speak and then use the dolphins in war. He thinks
it was written before 1980. He read it in Russian but he says its by an
American author. Anyone have any ideas
FROM: "Misha Stone" <[removed]@spl.org>
REC'D: 6/9/03, 2:39 PM
1. Sundiver
2. Startide Rising
3. Uplift War
4. Brightness Reef
5. Infinity's Shore
6. Heaven's Reach
Here is a review:
http://www.sffworld.com/authors/b/brin_david/reviews/startiderising.html
Startide Rising
by David Brin
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Submitted by Maj (19. Jan 2002)
This is the second in David Brin's 1st uplift trilogy. You don't need
to have read the first in the series (sundiver) to enjoy this novel, as
it takes place 500 years after Sundiver, and is a totally separate
novel.
The book charts a story of Earth's 1st mainly dolphin spacecrew, and
once you get used to this way of looking at things, is a cracking good
read.
'Uplift' is a process which has been going on for eons. It is the
process by which a patron race uplifts a client race by genetic
engineering, selective breeding etc. In return the client owes the
patron race a debt of servitude for 100,000 years- it is the way it
always has been. Humans are a 'wolfling' race- the only race to reach
the stars without help and are despised for it. However, by this time,
we have managed to uplift chimps and dolphins, enhancing their
intellects.
The background to this story is that this 1st dolphin manned mission
found a secret fleet, probably belonging to the 'progenitors'- the 1st
race who started it all. Then started back for earth. For some reason, a
lot of the other alien races want this secret location, and chased the
Streaker (the name of the ship), eventually shooting them down over a
deserted planet.
None of the aliens want to share the location of the fleet with each
other once they get the humans, so a fierce space battle rages in the
space around the planet, whilst tensions run rife in the ship below.
For me to give you more info would ruin the story. But storywise, this
novel is better than Sundiver (which didn't have a very satisfying final
third).
Just sit back and follow Mr Brin as he takes you through this quality
novel.
Misha M. Stone
Fiction Librarian
The Seattle Public Library
800 Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 386-4660
[removed]@spl.org
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