Startide Rising

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857233727 ISBN 13: 9781857233728

Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk, 1996

paperback, vg++

From the Publisher:

"The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre."
--The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

From the Inside Flap:

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.