Brightness Reef

This happens to be one of those books that is both brilliant and lacking at the same time. I will explain myself. The novel is actually quite as daunting and impressive as Startide Rising and The Uplift War in it's way, but it's mainly because Brin doesn't ever stint on world building. Ever. He goes......more

We emerged to stare, dismayed, at the riven sky. Soon sage and clanfolk alike knew The Day had finally come. Vengeance is not spared upon the children of the fallen. I suppose I would call this Science Fiction high literature; incredibly dense and expertly written, with more nuances than you can shake......more

You cannot ask for a better premise than Uplift. Of all the science fiction series I've read, David Brin has something special here. Uplift is more than just panspermia, because Brin has taken the idea of aliens genetically engineering pre-sapient life to full sapience and wrapped his own entire myt......more

‘Brightness Reef’ by David Brin is novel number 4 in the Uplift universe, but it is counted as the first in a new trilogy set in the Uplift universe. IMHO, readers should start with Sundiver because of Brin’s dense world-building and inventiveness regarding the amazing cultures of many many differen......more