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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