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Title: Wild ending (which really doesn't end)
Review: Dissapointed with the final book of the 2nd Uplift Trilogy. The book basically closes with a frenzy of activity, bringing in new characters, new concepts, and new story threads with little continuity. Basically, David Brin, who spent a large amount of time building characters in the first two books, rushes to end his story. And it doesn't really end. I would have liked to known more about the fate of the missing Searcher people, and the fate of Jijo is obviously left for a whole new book. No real answer to the question of "Herbie". A lot of dangling threads for what was to be the concluding book of a six-book story.
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