The Uplift War is set in Brin's larger Uplift universe, a universe where humans are unusual in that they've achieved sentience without a superior patron race guiding their evolution.
David Brin however not only gives us an entire, and distinctly alien galactic culture full of races with their own unique ways of acting, speaking and behaving, but even a very earthly race who are far from human. This is actually harder to accomplish than one would think, since simply sticking in a few Viking traditions and Cornish pasties on the forehead, or some squirming tentacles and a propensity for exploding tourist attractions doesn't give that sort of profoundly frightening, slightly off true inhuman thinking that we would expect of a creature from another world. One thing I really appreciate in science fiction, are aliens who are truly alien.
It bodes well for our future married life that my wife obviously knows me extremely well, since undoubtedly like it I did. During our honeymoon, one thing my lady and I did was begin reading David Brin's The Uplift War, one of her favourite science fiction books, and one which, she assured me, I'd definitely like.
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