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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You'll enjoy them, I think.
Brin loves to play with concepts. Like, he assumes that if it's possible to go FTL at all, there's more than one way to do it, and different species use different methods. For instance, the Tandu have a Client species called Episiarchs, who are bred for psi powers. A Tandu ship gets around because the Episiarch "pilot" denies the ship is in its current location so strongly that space warps around it, and Poof! The ship reappears somewhere else. Sometimes a Tandu ship goes Poof! and doesn't reappear, so other races don't use that method, but the Tandu are willing to accept the trade-off.
In a later book, we get introduced to a curious level of hyperspace, where it's possible to thoughts to exist, independent of minds to think them.
We also encounter life forms that breathe hydrogen instead of oxygen, and machine civilizations, with some really old entities that are the next thing to gods.
As mentioned, fun. The first three in internal chronology are _Sundiver_, _Startide Rising_, and _The Uplift War_, with several more following.
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Dennis
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I never realized that Startide Rising was a mid series book
