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Contacting aliens: an illustrated guide to David Brin's uplift universe
✍ Scribed by David Brin
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011;2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307433021
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✦ Synopsis
The award-winning Uplift novel s comprise one of the greatest achievements in science fiction history. Dramatic, thought-provoking, and inventive, these books describe a fully realized world rich in character, detail, and ideas. Now Uplift author David Brin collaborates with acclaimed artist Kevin Lenagh to compile the definitive guide to the species, societies, and technology of one of the greatest feats of literary world-building ever accomplished.
**CONTACTING ALIENS
**
Here in the form of a handbook for Terran field agents is a detailed look at Uplift's many alien races--from the friendly Tymbrimi to the warlike Tandu, from the wise and enigmatic Kanten to the fiercely reptilian Soro, from the bureaucratic Hoon to the manipulative Thennanin--their physiology, psychology, history; their clans and alliances; and their shifting attitudes toward Earth and its representatives.
Here, too, is a history of Earth's contact and...
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