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	Uplift Universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This civilization is perpetuated by the act of Uplift, in which one sapient species genetically modifies a non-sapient species until it is sapient.
		The fact that Humanity had already uplifted two species when it encountered the galactic civilization gave Humanity patron status, which is one of the few lucky turns it has had in its difficult position as pariah in the galactic civilization.
		In the Uplift Storm trilogy, survivors of the space ship Streaker continue to evade the various galactic powers and along the way encounter a hidden planet where the inhabitants have avoided most of the uplift schisms which plague the galactic civilization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uplift_Universe (826 words)

	The Uplift War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The (Any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system) planet Garth has been invaded by the longtime Patron race known as the Gubru.
		The Gubru have also heard that a new species on Garth is almost ready to become uplifted, and they look to become the patrons (sponsors) of this species.
		Opposing the Gubru's effort is one human (whose race views the patron-client relationship as so much (The practice of owning slaves) slavery) and assorted neo (uplifted)- (Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests) chimps.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_uplift_war.htm (136 words)

	Errors in the Uplift Universe
		In Uplift War, Chapter 4, Robert, p.19, the Sundiver incident and the Dolphin Uplift are mentioned as happening 2 centuries before the invasion of Garth.
		In Uplift War, Chapter 60, Uthacalthing, p.400, 12 sistaars is a unit of distance that may be crossed by a walking humanoid.
		Since in the Uplift Storm Trilogy dura (including a midura = 71 minutes, see the Timeline of Jijo for details) is consistently used as units of time, and the mictaar is used as unit of distance (in hyperspace), I suspect Uplift War was reckless with the nomenclature, and it changed between the two "trilogies".
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	The Uplift War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Brin's Uplift series is among the best-known in Science Fiction, and with good reason.
		The series takes place in a universe where all sentient races are "uplifted" by other patron races, who breed and cultivate their client races for intelligence.
		The Uplift War focuses on the invasion of a human-colonized world by a senior avian race, and combines the appeal of many war movies, where one roots for the ingenious underdogs, with a bit of political intrigue, some human drama, and a good dose of humor.
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	The Works of David Brin
		Gorilla were secretly Uplifted by Humans on this world and were given a 50,000 year lease on the Mulun Mountains.
		Among it's rules are: the tactic of holding a colony hostage is permissible; a manifesto of intention is required before an invasion or conflict commences; gives all citizens, regardless of imprisonment, the right to use The Library; they frown on the mass slaughter of civilians.
		Uplift Ceremony - During some periods of Galactic history, the uplift ceremony has been purely ceremonial, allowing Patrons to vouch for their clients readiness without evidence.
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	06/22/98: The Uplift Novels
		All the millions of starfaring species have one thing in common - they were 'uplifted' to sapiency by species that came before them by genetic engineering, who were themselves uplifted by those before them, in a chain that goes back billions of years.
		In the first Uplift novel, 'Sundiver', humans discover life in the sun, which is not even mentioned in the Great Library all other sapient species go to for knowledge.
		These are of great significance to a lot of fanatical galactic races who go to war over the right to capture the dolphins and the information they have gathered, while the dolphins try to escape.
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	War - Tony Chester
		War on the news, war in science fiction, Tony Chester finds it increasingly difficult to find where is the dividing line.
		According to SF the toys of war would get ever more sophisticated with the apparent aim of somehow rendering war a 'cleaner' enterprise, with a concordant reduction in the loss of innocent (ie.
		War is good for: (i) Keeping those weapons exports rolling and the money coming in; (ii) Diverting attention away from embarrassing domestic situations in the West; and (iii) Producing lots & lots & lots of corpses (like some perverse form of population control).
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Uplift War at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Uplift series, the five galaxies are dominated by one single, shared cultural fact: uplift.
		On the other hand, humans successfully uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees on their own, before contact with other galactics was made.
		The Uplift War is not a continuation of Startide Rising.
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	Book Review: The Uplift War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Uplift War is the third book in the Uplift saga, and it may be difficult to jump right into this story without having read either of the first two books, Sundiver or Startide Rising.
		However, humans are begrudgingly given patron status since they had unknowingly followed a tradition which had been around for eons, and uplifted two client species of their own into sentience, chimpanzees and dolphins.
		Most of the humans are killed or captured, so the only hope left is for the remaining uplifted inhabitants of Garth to form a resistance and reclaim their world.
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	David Brin's Uplift Universe
		Through this central theme of his Uplift Universe, and dozens of other rich details, Brin has managed to create one of the most 'realistic' and engrossing series of science fiction books ever written.
		In the Uplift universe, humanity is the underdog, millions of years behind the rest of the galaxy in technology.
		Sundiver is a very good novel, but I get the feeling that it's meant to be a standalone novel, and it survives perfectly well on its own, thank you very much.
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	Emerald City - #21
		In contrast, in The Uplift War, most of the human population of the planet Garth is captured and imprisoned early in the book.
		Given that the process of Uplift is the major religious activity of the galaxy (essentially it is following the example of the God-like Progenitors), it is therefore a particularly serious felony to eliminate any species that might, one day, become sentient themselves.
		The Uplift philosophy is thus a profoundly environmentalist view of the universe.
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	David Brin's Official Web Site: The "Uplift" Science Fiction Novels
		Now complete, the Uplift Trilogy (Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, and Heaven's Reach) continues the stirring saga that began with Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War.
		Those new to the Uplift saga may want to begin at the beginning, with the first three novels set in the Uplift universe.
		In the second book in the Uplift Trilogy, Infinity's Shore, it is truly the beginning of the end for the fugitive settlers of Jijo.
	www.davidbrin.com /upliftbooks.html (1418 words)

	The "Uplift Series" - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We first encounter him working with a newly-uplifted dolphin (uplift being the process of genetically enhancing a near-sentient species to full sentience) -- but he is called away from this job to join the Sundiver project, a Mercury-based expedition to explore the sun -- and it turns out life has been discovered there.
		It serves as a great introduction to the Uplift saga (currently at six books; it's unclear whether Brin will write more); but it also works very well indeed as a stand-alone novel of mystery and science, of one man and his mental health, and of humanity's place in the cosmos.
		The whole idea of dolphins crewing a starship is just lovely, and "The Uplift War" highlighted one of my fave alien species--the avian Gubru, with their three castes/genders.
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	Review: The Uplift War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The third Uplift novel is set at roughly the same time as the turbulent events surrounding the
		Now Garth has been settled by humans and uplifted chimps (the oceans contain trace elements toxic to dolphins) and an ecological reclamation project is under way to stop and reverse the decline of Garth's impoverished biosphere.
		Also, uplifting chimps (or any other of the great apes) seems a flawed idea.
	sites.inka.de /~W3775/reviews/TheUpliftWar.html (304 words)

	Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1) by David Brin - The Dark Spiral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have heard rumours that the Uplift Series is going to be made into a film.
		The first three books in the saga, "Sundiver," "Startide Rising," and "The Uplift War," are not really a trilogy or a series in the normal sense.
		The Uplift War: The events in this book start from the same event that kicks off "Startide Rising." But, other than that, the two books are totally independent.
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	Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "new" uplift trilogy now unfolding (beginning with Brightness Reef), however, will be a true trilogy, with none of the books standing on their own.
		An entire galactic civilization is presented wherein uplift is a common practice, and a species' status is based on the number of "client" races they have successfully uplifted.
		The Uplift War is a spectacular adventure book that stands on its own and may be more fun to read than Star Tide Rising, but Star Tide Rising is certainly a more important book.
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	wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction
		Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered techniques by which non-intelligent creatures are given intelligence by one of the higher races in the galaxy.
		Human intelligence, which developed by itself (and brought about the Uplifting of chimpanzees and dolphins), is an affront to the aliens who plan an attack, threatening a human experiment aimed at producing the next Uplift.
		The Uplift War is book number 3 in the Uplift Series.
	www.wotmania.com /storebook.asp?ID=361 (370 words)

	Fiction_L Archives (2003) - Sci Fi with dolphins helping humans in war
		Uplift Wars: Sundiver, Startide Rising, The Uplift War, Brightness Reef,
		This is the second in David Brin's 1st uplift trilogy.
		'Uplift' is a process which has been going on for eons.
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	Review: Startide Rising, David Brin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Briefly, this universe is one where species are Uplifted to sentience by the genetic modification and guidance of another species.
		The chain of Uplift is thought to extend back to semi-mythical Progenitors; the only exception found within eons is the human race, who appear to have Uplifted themselves—something which earns them the scorn and enmity of many.
		By the time humans are discovered by the rest of the Five Galaxies, they had begun Uplifting chimpanzees and dolphins.
	www.steelypips.org /reviews/startide.html (401 words)

	Books : Infinity's Shore (The Uplift Saga, Book 5) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this second novel of David Brin's Uplift Storm trilogy, the society of outlaw races on Jijo are thrown into further chaos with the arrival of the super-powerful Jophur, a hostile race of alien conquerors.
		We are reintroduced to the crew of Streaker, who plot their escape from under the nose of their fearsome adversaries.
		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.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While the concept of Uplift that Brin has created (you'll just have to read the books to truly understand it) is very intriguing, what makes this book so enjoyable is the characters and their interaction with one another.
		The Uplift War is called the 3rd book in the Uplift saga, but it is not a sequel to the 2nd book, Startide Rising (S.R.).
		After the human colonists are quickly subdued by sophisticated gas weapons, the resistance has to come from their "uplifted clients": the intelligence-augmented chimpanzees who are conquering space at the side of their patrons.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Infinity's Shore (The Uplift Saga, Book 5) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This second volume in David Brin's new Uplift trilogy is an epic tale that artfully combines dozens of unique characters and their individual stories.
		The visitors include the dolphin crew of the ship Streaker and the Rothen, the race who may have "uplifted" to intelligence most of the races of Jijo, except the humans, who because of their unique status are in greater peril than ever.
		The uplift saga has to be one of the greatest achievements in science fiction writing, and deserves recognition from mainstream literary critics.
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	David Brin: Infinity's Shore - an infinity plus review
		I mean, if you take the Uplift War books to date, only the first (Sundiver) and third (The Uplift War) have any kind of satisfactory resolution.
		The others all have either temporary resolutions (the dolphin-crewed starship Streaker escaping into the depths of space at the end of Startide Rising), or outright cliffhangers (like the fate of the main characters in their home-built bathysphere at the end of Brightness Reef, severed from their lifeline and about to be eaten by a monster).
		If he carries through with the story in Heaven's Reach, and pulls off a satisfactory conclusion to the whole sequence, then the Uplift War series will deserve to be racked alongside Dune and the other great epic SF works of the past.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/brininf.htm (646 words)

	David Brin \| AUTHOR CATALOG
		David Brin is the author of ten previous novels, Sundiver, The Uplift War, Startide Rising, The Practice Effect, The Postman, Heart of the Comet (with Gregory Benford), Earth, Glory Season, Brightness Reef, and Infinity's Shore, as well as the short-story collections The River of Time and Otherness.
		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. Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.
		David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without...
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	David Brin's Official Web Site: The Uplift War (sample chapters)
		See my cover story in the August Salon magazine, about new surveillance technologies and some of the stark choices we face in the years ahead.
		This one focuses on J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy, Lord of the Rings, and how that famous trilogy has played an important role in the long struggle of romanticism against the modern world.
		Now available in bookstores, Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide To David Brin's Uplift Universe is a fun tour of the many alien races people enjoyed in books like Startide Rising and The Uplift War.
	www.davidbrin.com /upliftwarsample1.html (2302 words)

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