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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 (844 words)

	Uplift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biological uplift refers to the theoretic prospect of upgrading the capacities of non-human animals or other intelligences.
		Stellar uplift refers to the theoretic prospect of converting lifeless stellar matter into intelligent and sentient substrate.
		Uplift factor, or simply Uplift, describes the adjustments to employee salaries or benefits, especially in countries of the British Commonwealth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uplift (147 words)

	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.
	www.gayspermbank.com /brin/uplift.html (2807 words)

	Characters of the Uplift Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Qualified for the Terragen Center of Galactic Studies in La Paz but was denied a position because the Uplift Board felt her white card status would be better utilized on Garth.
		Kuff-Kuff't - Brma singer that sang at the Ceremony of Uplift for the Tytlal on Tymbrim.
		The Suzerain coerced the aid of Gailet and Fiben to act as race representatives during the Uplift ceremony.
	home.comcast.net /~stefan_jones/uplift_gateway_characters.html (3720 words)

	The Works of David Brin
		After the second Uplift Ceremony held on Garth by Gubru hosts, chimpanzees were declared to be at Stage Three of Sentience.
		During The Uplift War Chim scientists hid the Gorillas from the Gubru invasion in the Mulun Mountains.
		Humans are very liberal in their uplift policies by treating clients as equals, not demanding 100,000 years of servitude from Chims and Dolphins and allowing client representatives seats on the Terragen Council.
	www.gayspermbank.com /brin/species1.htm (2311 words)

	Review: Sundiver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		universe, it is a mystery novel, the main protagonist must overcome his schizophrenia, and a large part of it is set, of all unlikely places, in the chromosphere of our sun.
		All but the youngest of them have already uplifted new races they discovered, and all of them were once uplifted themselves by older civilizations, of which the most ancient have disappeared long since.
		And with dolphins and chimps, man has already uplifted two species on his own, earning some forced recognition in a galactic society where status is derived from the age of a civilization and its descendance tree of uplifted races.
	sites.inka.de /~W3775/reviews/Sundiver.html (424 words)

	RPGnet: Review of GURPS Uplift Second Edition
		Uplift is the practice of taking a pre-sentient species and uplifting them to sentience and star travel.
		The universe is very old and there are lots and lots of gadgets out thereand the Library has templates for all of themassuming you can access the computers, convince them you need the information then have the industrial capability to make the devises.
		GURPS Uplift is a very dense and information laden supplement, but it is logically organized and it never feels like you are being overloaded with informationdespite there being so much there.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/9/9924.phtml (1779 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - the BooK NooK
		The Uplift Universe is based on the principal that intelligent species in the universe go around to different worlds and find potentially sentient species.
		The human race proves to be a problem for other patron races in the universe because it has apparently reached sentience without a patron and therefore does not fit into the model of the universe.
		We are brought into the story as the patron races of the universe are trying desperately to place the human race in the universal order.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A343658 (430 words)

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		Physicists who accidentally spawn new universes are pursued by transhumans in Robert Metzger's _Picoverse_, neologisms abound among the mysterious aliens of Alastair Reynold's _Chasm City_ and _Revelation Space_, and Greg Cox grants cameos to every 20cen "Trek" extra in the espionage-ish _Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh_.
		The universe's premise is that human civilization has split in twain: "Edenists" use advanced biotechnology, included telepathy and sentient geneered spacecraft; "Adamists" don't; and a symbiosis/tension derives from the social differences between the two.
		According to the tradition of Uplift, worlds are left vacant to evolve promising new pre-sentient species, which are then adopted into clans and geneered to full tool-using intelligence, eventually to repeat the cycle.
	nsx.underbase.org /post/004-006.txt (2917 words)

	David Brin Uplift Timeline
		These books are set in the Uplift Universe, where each intelligent species was uplifted from pre-sentient (animal) intelligence to spacefaring level - since the days of the Progenitors.
		Stewart Blandón's timeline is based on GURPS Uplift, and there are some minor differences between the canon and GURPs Uplift.
		Another Uplift Universe Encyclopedia, with much creative material, is Trent Shipley's Aliance for Progress Galactic Library pico-branch.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Corridor/8611/brin.htm (335 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: The "Uplift" Science Fiction Novels
		Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide To David Brin's Uplift Universe is a fun tour of the many alien races in the Uplift Universe.
		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 (1430 words)

	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.
		The new Uplift trilogy is an amazing story, which works on a number of levels.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/postman/112.html (862 words)

	Errors in the Uplift Universe
		Since Contact was around 2211 (or 2250 in the Uplift Timeline), this must have happened during the 23rd century.
		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.
		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".
	www.geocities.com /albmont/brintypo.htm (1247 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Uplift War at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
	www.epinions.com /content_90622561924 (1237 words)

	Colin Glassey on David Brin
		In brief, uplift is the moral duty that every race has to raise the intelligence of the creatures that they share their home planet with or that they meet in their journey through the stars.
		Uplift is a wonderful idea on a number of levels.
		Uplift is such a powerful idea that I suspect it is indeed a valid moral imperative for humans of the next 1000 years.
	www.teleologic.com /crghome/brin.html (1760 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sundiver at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Uplift is the term used to refer to the process whereby one spacefaring species encourages the evolution of another to bring them to a similar state of development.
		One of the explorers, an uplifted chimp, dies during a dive.
		The themes aroused by the premise behind the Uplift universe are reminiscent of the imperial age when superpowers colonized primitive peoples and either extinguished them or recreated them to serve their own purposes.
	www.epinions.com /content_88587341444 (1188 words)

	Amazon.com: Uplift War (Uplift Trilogy): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0932096441?v=glance (2687 words)

	wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction
		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.
		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.
		It chronicles the adventures of a handful of primitives from the planet Jijo who have left or been taken from their homes only to be swept into the intrigues of galactic politics.
	www.wotmania.com /storeseries.asp?ID=361 (714 words)

	sffworld.com - David Brin
		"Uplift" means to use genetic engineering to increase intelligence to sentient level those animals on your home world that have that potential.
		The Uplift series, of which there are now six, are his best (and most famous) work; a potrayal of a universe swarming with lifeforms, all of which snub earth as totally immature.
		December 13th, 2001 12:23 PM I've read the Uplift books and they are all worth reading, although Sundiver isn't quite as good as the rest, IMHO.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/printthread.php?t=515&pp=30 (1374 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Heaven's Reach
		His Uplift galaxy was one of the few genuinely original ideas generated by non-cyberpunk SF in the mid-1980s.
		Third in the New Uplift Trilogy, this book cannot really be considered independent of its predecessor volumes, Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore, and therein lies part of the problem.
		We learn far more about the workings of the Uplift universe than we did in Brin's previous novels, but unfortunately entirely at the expense of plot and structure.
	www.sfsite.com /07b/hevn37.htm (780 words)

	Brightness Reef Review
		Brightness Reef is the latest of David Brin`s "Uplift" series of novels, which began with his first novel, Sundiver, originally published in 1980.
		Briefly, the main premise of the "Uplift" universe is that all sapient races were "uplifted" to intelligence by genetic modifications performed by an older "Patron" race, in a genealogical sequence stretching back millions of years to the fabled Progenitors.
		The alliances seem to differ on such issues as permissible degrees of genetic alteration of clients (some Patrons unethically modify their clients for excessive servility, for instance), proper length of indenture periods, and degree of respect (or worship) for the (long-disappeared) Progenitors.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/brreef.htm (806 words)

	Linux News: Commentary : Christmas, AI and 'The Uplift Wars'
		In Brin's imaginary universe, a mysterious and long gone race known as the progenitors set in place a unity of life across five galaxies largely by focusing moral valuations around the development and protection of sentience.
		Brin admits of machine intelligence in his uplift universe, but doesn't give them the obligations that come with sapience.
		There is a deep environmentalist position here in that making the jump from intelligence to sapience is presented as requiring a moment when the intelligence looks outside itself to see beauty in its own fundamental unity with the environment in which it evolved.
	www.linuxinsider.com /story/Christmas-AI-and-The-Uplift-Wars-39160.html (1074 words)

	Amazon.ca: Heaven's Reach: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Moreover, for longtime fans of Uplift, they are plenty of wonderfully innovative answers to some of those burning questions, plenty to keep us satisfied until the next Uplift novel comes out 5-10 years from now.
		In this thrilling finale to the Uplift series we are treated by introduction to the Hydrogen breathers, the Mechanoid life forms, members of the retired order from the Fractal world, Memetic life forms of folded space, and we are given a glimpse into the transcendant order of life.
		The core tale of Streker and her cargo of progenitor relics, and the inhabitants of the Sooner Colony on Jijo is continued to a gripping conclusion.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553574736 (1179 words)

	Review: Startide Rising, David Brin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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)

	Brightness Reef by David Brin, Uplift series science fiction book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Another clever touch was "the Stranger." This character should be able to explain away most of the mysteries of the book, except he has suffered a head wound affecting the speech center of his brain and his memories.
		Jijo is also a terrific metaphor for an issue Brin has always been interested in, the difference between a worldview that anticipates progress over time and one that assumes we are in a state of decline from a past golden age.
		Reading Uplift War would also be helpful, but it's not as essential for understanding the Uplift universe.
	members.aol.com /siure/brin.htm (1107 words)

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