Heaven's Reach (Uplift Trilogy) - Hardcover

Brin, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553101749 ISBN 13: 9780553101744

Publisher: Bantam USA, 1998

Synopsis

A winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and the author of the New York Times best-seller, The Postman, concludes his Uplift Trilogy with the story of a group of adventurers who find a marvelous new universe in peril.

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Review:

Heaven's Reach is the final volume of the Uplift trilogy, which begins in Brightness Reef and continues in Infinity's Shore. It chronicles the adventures of a handful of primitives from the planet Jijo who have left or been taken from their homes only to be swept into the intrigues of galactic politics. The novel also continues the story of the fugitive Earth starship Streaker, pursued across the galaxy for its precious cargo of ancient artefacts. Just when it looks like things can't get worse for Streaker, the foretold Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. Devastating "space quakes" shake every planet and star, and some of the particularly unscrupulous alien races attempt to use the disaster to further their bizarre goals. There's danger and excitement on almost every page (in contrast to much of the first two books in the series) and Brin finally delivers on many of the mysteries of the Five Galaxies. The Progenitors, the Hydrogen Breathers, Streaker's cargo--these and more are explained at last. Or are they? Each seemingly ultimate truth tends to dissolve a chapter later, revealing a new and more complex truth. New adventures and mysteries await. --Brooks Peck

Book Description:

The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre' - John Clute, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam USA
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553101749
• ISBN 13: 9780553101744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 447