An As New Example Of This First Printing Of This Revised Edition Of The Award Winning Novel, And First Hardcover Edition, Inscribed By The Author To Me And Dated In 1997.

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Title

Startide Rising (First Revised Edition, 1985, Phantasia Press, Inscribed By Author)

Publisher

Phantasia Press, Bloomfield Hills / West Bloomfield

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0932096387

ISBN 13

9780932096388

Binding

Cloth

Edition

First Hardcover Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Literature: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Utopian

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Synopsis

After crash-landing on an uncharted planet, the human and dolphin crew of a spaceship from Earth battle fleets of alien warships

Reviews

In its original paperback editon of 1983, this novel won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Brin's extensive revisions make this first hardcover edition an SF event. What remains most impressive is the complex background of political, cultural, linguistic and many other connections and missed connections among innumerable different species. Against the backdrop of an ancient spacefaring conglomerate, whose shared traditions have not halted their wars, the upstart Earthlingshumans, dolphins, chimpanzeesalso stand divided. Brin raises questions not only of understanding but of ethics, for a "patron" race may genetically uplift another only to indenture them. His depiction of the dolphins' gains and losses now that they've become space pilots is particularly moving. Although Brin's characterization and storytelling are less adept here than in the work he has since written, this is one of the outstanding SF novels of recent years. November 22
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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