A great story in the Uplift saga with a few surprises. Highly recommended.

I couldn't put it down! In this book, humans have "uplifted" dolphins and the first starship, Streaker, crewed by humans and dolphins and commanded by a dolphin, have found possible proof of the Progenitors and the rest of the universe wants it at any cost. Great characters and story with intrigue, heroism, self-sacrifice, etc.

I really hope the next book explains just what it is that the Streaker found.

I rolled doubles, roll again: 3

Visiting Jail

If you are just visiting: read enough pages to donate $3.00 to the bail fund

Read 201 to 400 pages: $3.00

I may have to watch the movie again.  I'm not sure which I like better.  The book does go more into WHY he did it and how it made him feel.

Series: Uplift #1

I read the two books that come after this one in the series a few years ago and I liked them, so I was looking for some background on that word but I think this one went further back than I'd like. Earth has encountered the various races of aliens that have a tradition of "uplifting" younger species to sapiency (genetically engineering them) like humans have done with chimpanzees and are trying to do with dolphins. Humans are a wild wolfling race lacking a patron race, which offends some galactic sensibilities. Some of the aliens think that humans were actually abandoned by their patrons before being ushered into galactic civilization because us actually evolving on our own seems so unlikely.

I just didn't like the main character Jacob Demwa, and I found his whole Jekyll and Hyde routine to be tiresome and poorly explained. The explanation that there was was just silly. Maybe the book just hasn't aged well The main plot line was about investigating these creatures that live in the sun whose like aren't mentioned anywhere in the Galactic Library. That part was interesting but I didn't like any of the characters.

I read this for the "Aliens" square for the Halloween Bingo. It could also be used for the "Amateur Sleuth" square.

So the sun is haunted....

I'm having a bit of hard time getting into this one, but maybe it'll pick up after this. I'm reading it for the Aliens square, and aliens are everywhere (actually they're not because they're required to stay in specially designated locations on Earth but, you know). It's rare for a science fiction book to possibly be able to be counted for the Ghost square though. Maybe. Depends on the haunting, I suppose.

This book is set earlier than I realized in the Uplift Universe, so I guess I'm a little disappointed that we're still working on uplifting the dolphins, and there has been very little trinary. Dolphins in spaceships were cool.