Speculative Book Club: "Star Tide Rising" by David Brin

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The Speculative Book Club will meet on Tuesday, June 6th at 7:30pm to discuss Star Tide Rising by David Brin! For questions about this meeting, email us at unabridgedbookstore@gmail.com.

A starship crew of humans and dolphins skirts the brink of interstellar war in this epic adventure by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Postman.

We are not alone. Humanity's explorations have revealed galaxies inhabited by millions of intelligent species interacting under ancient traditions. Foremost among said traditions is uplift, which requires all spacefaring races to welcome newcomers into Galactic culture by breeding and genetically guiding each client species to full sapience--but at a price. Patron races demand centuries of indentured servitude from each uplifted client. But is upstart humanity a patron or a client?

The Earthship Streaker--crewed by humans and uplifted dolphins and chimpanzees--discovers a derelict armada, perhaps left by the very first patrons, the fabled Progenitors. Suddenly the Five Galaxies teeter on the brink of all-out war as fanatics hunt Streaker for the secret. With a damaged ship and hostile aliens in pursuit, the crew must band together if they hope to survive . . .

David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin's latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.

 

 
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga) By David Brin Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781504064729
Availability: Available, order here for delivery or pickup.
Published: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy - May 25th, 2021

Event date: 

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 7:30pm

Event address: 

Unabridged Books, Inc.
Chicago, IL 60657