David Brin è uno scienziato e autore di fama mondiale le cui opere approfondiscono la complessa interazione tra tecnologia, società e futuro dell'umanità. La sua narrativa anticipa spesso le tendenze emergenti e affronta pressanti preoccupazioni ecologiche ed etiche, portando rigore scientifico e profondità filosofica al genere. Brin è celebrato per la sua visione distintiva nella narrativa speculativa, offrendo ai lettori esplorazioni stimolanti sulla traiettoria evolutiva della nostra civiltà. La sua scrittura di saggistica esamina ulteriormente questioni contemporanee come la libertà e la privacy in un mondo sempre più connesso.
Dopo l'immane catastrofe che li ha colpiti, gli Stati Uniti sono ridotti a un pugno di comunità isolate e indifese. Nella totale desolazione del Nordovest vaga solo Gordon Krantz. Gordon casualmente trova il cadavre di un postino: si impossessa e indossa la sua divisa. Quel "travestimento" cambierà per sempre la sua vita: in ogni villaggio che visita viene scambiato per l'impiegato del nuovo, riorganizzato Servizio Postale degli Stati Uniti. Su questa grande illusione si costruirà la speranza di una possibile rinascita per tutta l'umanità.
Il suo universo futuro popolato di razze aliene sparse per le Cinque Galassie, dove i forti creano immensi imperi coloniali sollevando pian piano le razze minori a un livello evolutivo tale da poter viaggiare nel cosmo e combattere così al loro fianco in una guerra di dimensioni spaventose, aveva colpito e affascinato tutti i critici e i lettori di questo genere che subito l’avevano paragonato, per grandiosità di concetti e di scenario, all’universo di Foundation di Asimov e di Dune di Herbert. Ora David Brin ritorna a questo scenario straordinario e pieno di “senso del meraviglioso” per narrarci un’altra eccezionale vicenda. Mentre le armate galattiche si scontrano senza esclusione di colpi nella strenua ricerca dell’antica flotta dei Progenitori (la mitica Prima Razza che ha volato tra le stelle), una brutale invasione avviene sul morente mondo di Garth. Le diverse razze “elevate” di Garth sono così costrette a combattere questi violenti “signori dello spazio” per evitare l’estinzione. Ma in palio c’è anche la sopravvivenza della stessa Terra, e forse il fato di tutte le Cinque Galassie.
This second volume in David Brin's new Uplift trilogy is an epic tale that artfully combines dozens of unique characters and their individual stories. The planet Jijo, which has been settled by six separate races despite a decree that it remain barren for a million years, is about to change. The exploration ship Streaker, on the run since discovering the secrets of a two-billion-year-old derelict fleet, has arrived with virtually the entire universe in pursuit. Overnight the peaceful, technologically backwards Jijoan society erupts into civil war, creating a chaotic tapestry of grief, sorrow, joy, love and, ultimately, hope.
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind? The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.
As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants must battle their overlords of face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. THE UPLIFT WAR is the third book in David Brin's magnificent Uplift series. Winner of the Hugo award when it was first published, it is a sweeping, brilliantly crafted story of adventure and wonder from one of the greatest writers of science fiction.
Argues that the privacy of individuals actually hampers accountability, which is the foundation of any civilized society and that openness is far more liberating than secrecy
David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written. Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit. The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness, drawn together by their fear of Judgment Day, when the Five Galaxies will discover their illegal colony. Then a strange starship arrives on Jijo. Does it bring the long-dreaded judgment, or worse--a band of criminals willing to destroy the six races of Jijo in order to cover their own crimes?
In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember. But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.Dr. Yosil Maharal, a brilliant researcher in artificial intelligence, has suddenly vanished, just as he is on the verge of a revolutionary scientific breakthrough. Maharal's daughter, Ritu, believes he has been kidnapped--or worse. Aeneas Polom, a reclusive trillionaire who appears in public only through his high-priced platinum duplicates, offers Morris unlimited resources to locate Maharal before his awesome discovery falls into the wrong hands.To uncover the truth, Morris must enter a shadowy, nightmare world of ghosts and golems where nothing--and no one--is what they seem, memory itself is suspect, and the line between life and death may no longer exist.
Al Morris is a private investigator in a future world where everyone can exist in multiple places simultaneously, known as dittos. As chaos unfolds, Al must navigate this complex reality. Welcome to his intriguing journey.
