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Sundiver by David Brin6/29/2023 ![]() An alien friend of Demwa's, Fagin (a Kanten), contacts Demwa and offers him a job. He is recovering from a tragedy at the Vanilla Space Needle where he saved the space elevator from destruction but lost his love in the process. The novel begins with the main character, Jacob Demwa, working at the center for uplift on Earth. Humanity begins to uplift other species on Earth, including chimpanzees and dolphins, but does not demand subservience. This leads to great arguments among the alien powers. ![]() This had been believed to be impossible, nothing of the sort is known in the eons-old galactic library. The arrival of a human ship at a populated star upsets the established races as humanity reached sentience on their own. All existing races have reached sentience through this process, and follow a common evolution in which the races become free of their uplifters, enter of period of independent power, and then fade and eventually disappear. As "payment" for being made sentient, the uplifted races are subservient to their uplifters for a period of time. The book takes place in a galaxy filled with alien races, all of whom were "uplifted" into sentience by another race through the use of forced breeding. ![]() It is the first book of his first Uplift trilogy, followed by Startide Rising in 1983 and The Uplift War in 1987. Sundiver is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin. ![]()
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