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In Lighting Reef and Infinity's Shoreline, David Brin boldly came back to the Uplift world he so brilliantly created in the Nebula and Hugo award-winning trilogy Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War. Now he concludes this second trilogy along with his most imaginative and psychologically powerful book to date--the shattering epic of a world poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.
After decades of mutual peace, the "sooner" experiment on planet Jijo is coming to a tragic end. The six fugitive races that escaped there from the Five Galaxies have been learned by ancient foes. The terrifying Jophur have plans for the exiled inhabitants: a program of genocide and required breeding to match their own perverted needs.
The Jijoans' only anticipation is the very dispatch that inadvertently led the Jophur to their obscure planet. The Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins, commanded by an untested individual, engages the Jophur in a anxious race to a secret point in space that may mean the destruction of these both. Yet more than simply the fate of Jijo hangs in the balance. For Streaker posesses cargo of historical artifacts which may unlock the trick of the Progenitors, the mythical race that first helped bring sapience to the galaxies. Some believe that a dire prophecy has already been coming to go away: an years of terrifying changes with time and space which could end galactic civilization.
Against this apocalyptic backdrop, sapient beings, both individual and alien, must get together to face the ultimate crisis. An uplifted chimpanzee scout must overcome prejudice and his own constraints to endure the bizarre terrors of more and more unpredictable hyperspace. An excellent scientist tries to wrest order from onrushing chaos. Streaker's commander will press the boundaries of courage and skill as she plunges her staff headlong in to the unidentified. And two addicts from Jijo, prisoners of the Jophur, go on a perilous journey, that will either enhance them...or damage them.
Already a large number of white dwarf personalities stand prepared to explode, as if led by an unseen hand, while many reclusive Old Ones collect in search of ultimate transcendence.
As worlds are sundered and hyperspace becomes impassable, the survival of sentient life in the world rests on an improbable anticipation: that age-old antagonists of different races can at last recognize the unity of all consciousness.
Once again David Brin has merged brilliant intellectual speculation, dazzling characterization, and breakneck action in a book that extends to the pinnacle of success: a galactic panorama of wonder and wisdom, information and adventure, in which he unveils mysteries which may lie in the centre of the world.