The Uplift War

And here we, no wrong sorry, here come the chimpanzees. There are so many Sci-Fi ideas including apes, like the Planet of the apes' franchise, cartoon characters and many evil experiments. One of the less widespread ideas is reverse engineering, the downgrading, or, appropriate to the terminology of......more

Let’s get one thing straight. The Uplift War is not military science fiction. There is a war, yes, and there are some appropriately war-like moments, but the emphasis is, once again, on the ‘Uplift’ and not on the ‘War’. Arguably, one the greatest strengths of The Uplift War and its predecessors, is......more

Galactic civilization is balanced on a knife's edge. Power is gained by becoming patrons, gaining client races, uplifting them to sentience and starfaring, and having them as more or less indentured servants over hundreds of thousands of years. But then humans came on the scenes, "wolflings," who ap......more

In this book, we are on the planet Garth. A few thousand years ago, the planet's native species was eradicated by the galactics for nearly destroying the planet's ecosystem after reverting back to a more primitive form of life for some reason. Nowadays, the planet is governed by Earthclan (humans an......more

Christmas 2010: I realised that I had got stuck in a rut. I was re-reading old favourites again and again, waiting for a few trusted authors to release new works. Something had to be done. On the spur of the moment I set myself a challenge, to read every book to have won the Locus Sci-Fi award. T......more