Again though, Brin manages to take this standard setup and portray it in a profoundly unique way. Rather in the way that The Uplift War was in some ways the classic conflict of a small group of heroes at war with an overbearing evil empire, Startide Rising is then the equally well known style of the small ship and its intrepid crew standing against the odds. Unfortunately, this has brought the Streaker the unwelcome attention of several powerful galactic clans, who have sent large battle fleets to capture the Streaker and its crew.Īs the story begins, The Streaker has set down on the ocean planet Kithrup to make repairs, while a number of fleets from diverse galactic races battle in space above them. As the book opens, Streaker has made an astounding discovery, a collection of million year old spaceships and one preserved alien corpse, supposed relics of the mythical progenitors, the first race ever to begin the process of uplift. The book concerns the star ship Streaker humanity's first ship crewed almost entirely by Phen, as Neo dolphins are called. One thing I found intriguing about Startide Rising is that the very background details and bare setup of the story could've made a novel in themselves.
After The Uplift War, it was natural for my lady and I to read Startide Rising, particularly since the mentions of Neodolphins very much intrigued me, and of course because Brin's Uplift universe, where one sentient race "uplifts" another to be an intelligent species in their turn, thus forming "clans" or collections of patron races and their uplifted clients with political and ideological unions, is a truly unique and fantastic one.
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