num_pages: 458
description: David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War—a New York Times bestseller—together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind? The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret—the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.
language: English
title: Startide Rising
titlecomplete: Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2)
genres: Space, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Aliens, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fiction, Science Fiction, Hugo Awards
ratings_count: 31683
series: The Uplift Saga
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Novel
publisher: Bantam Spectra