title: Earthclan: The Uplift War / Startide Rising
author:  David Brin 
description: Omnibus edition of the second and third novels in the Uplift series: Startide Rising (winner, 1983 Nebula Award, 1984 Hugo Award, 1984 Locus Poll Award) and The Uplift War (winner, 1988 Hugo, 1988 Locus Poll Award). These novels were preceded by Sundiver (1980).
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  The Uplift War
  
  
  
  
  
  David Brin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Jane Goodall, Sarah Hardy,
  
  
  
  
  
  and all the others who are helping us
  
  
  
  
  
  at last to learn to understand.
  
  
  
  
  
  And to Diane Fossey, who died fighting
  
  
  
  
  
  so that beauty and potential might live.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DAVID BRIN holds a doctorate in astrophysics, has worked as a consultant to
  NASA, and teaches graduate-level physics and writing. He is the author of five
  previous novels, including Startide Rising, which won both the Nebula and Hugo
  Awards, and The Postman, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. A
  native of Southern California, he currently lives in London, England.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prelude
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  How strange, that such an insignificant little world should come to matter so
  much.
  
  
  
  
  
  Traffic roared amid the towers of Capital City, just beyond the sealed crystal
  dome of the official palanquin. But no sound penetrated to disturb the
  bureaucrat of Cost and Caution, who concentrated onl