Hostile aliens take an Earth colony hostage in this New York
Times-bestselling hard science fiction adventure by the author of
Startide Rising.
Although they were uplifted and given full sapience, the Bururalli
clearly weren't ready to run a planet, almost wrecking Garth. As a
"salvage world," it was given to despised Earthlings, assigned to
reclaim it from the brink. Many senior Galactics--leaders of the Five
Galaxies--hoped humanity would fail. But now Garth is peacefully surging
back, tended by human and neo-chimpanzee colonists.
Meanwhile, enemies desperately seek some way to coerce Earthclan,
looking for a possible answer to the secret of the Progenitors. One of
them--the Gubru avian race--prepares to invade and hold hostage
defenseless Garth. With Earth itself under attack by other militant
forces, no relief is coming for the embattled colonists. If they are to
survive, they have no choice but to band together, improvise, and learn
the tactics of guerilla warfare.
This book features a new introduction by the author.
Winner of the Hugo Award
"An exhilarating read that encompasses everything from breathless action
to finely drawn moments of quiet intimacy. There is no way we can avoid
coming back as many times as Brin wants us to, until his story is done."
--Locus
"Shares all the properties that made Startide such a joy. The plot
fizzes along . . . and there are the wonders of the Galactic
civilizations (which have all the invention and excitement that SF
used to have)." --Asimov's Science Fiction
"The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published
in the genre." --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
