This is science fiction from 1980 and is therefore not obsessed with:1) Computers.2) Nanotech.3) Wormholes.This makes it rather refreshing. Instead this book uses an old theme, prevalent in post-WWII American SF: Humans (read the USA) are superior to everybody else. In this example, humans are techn...
Oh dear. I'd read one volume of the Uplift Saga long ago, and always meant to read them in order. 50 pages in this just wasn't doing it for me. I'm not sure if I've changed, or this just isn't nearly as good as the one I read, but I was bored.
Awesome multi-species science fiction, with ancient galaxy-spanning empires and scrappy Earthlings trying to hold their own. One of the few series with ultra-high technology that still has a hard sci-fi feel.
I've already bought all six books in this series, so I'm going to read them all. This first one, though, didn't thrill me much for a number of reasons. For one thing, it featured a superhero type protagonist and another superhero type for a love interest. I seem to prefer books in which it's ordi...
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