Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. 'One of maybe twenty science fiction novels that deserve the label classic.' - Timeĭavid Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. 'This is one of the outstanding SF novels of recent years.' - Publishers Weekly I remain amazed at how many different characters and subplots Brin juggles without a misstep, and the way he keeps the tension and suspense high throughout.' Startide Rising is one of the books that I remember most fondly, out of all I have read, and rereading it thirty years later proved just as enjoyable as the first time.

'An extraordinary achievement.' -Poul Anderson, award-winning author of Tau Zero This book features a new introduction by the author. With a damaged ship and hostile aliens in pursuit, the crew must band together if they hope to survive. Suddenly the Five Galaxies teeter on the brink of all-out war as fanatics hunt Streaker for the secret. The Earthship Streaker-crewed by humans and uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees-discovers a derelict armada, perhaps left by the very first patrons, the fabled Progenitors. But is upstart humanity a patron or a client?

Patron races demand centuries of indentured servitude from each uplifted client. Foremost among said traditions is uplift, which requires all spacefaring races to welcome newcomers into Galactic culture by breeding and genetically guiding each client species to full sapience-but at a price. Humanity's explorations have revealed galaxies inhabited by millions of intelligent species interacting under ancient traditions. A starship crew of humans and dolphins skirts the brink of interstellar war in this epic adventure by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Postman.

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