Series
Uplift
David Brin · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1980–1999
David Brin's Uplift trilogy opens with Sundiver, sending human explorers into the Sun itself, then follows a dolphin-crewed starship on the run from hostile aliens in Startide Rising and a fight over the colony world Garth in The Uplift War. The books sit inside Brin's wider Uplift Universe, built on the idea that spacefaring "patron" species genetically engineer younger "client" species into full sapience, with humanity an anomaly that reached the stars without a patron of its own.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Uplift at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s4
- 1990s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette
1 author
reads like:science fictionupliftother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Startide Risingdarkest · most intense
- Sundiverbrightest · calmest