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His best known work, the uplift series, was described in the encyclopedia of science fiction as compulsive reading as anything in the genre. Extracting patterns and relations from the world wide web. David brin is a scientist and the bestselling author of sundiver, the uplift war, startide rising, the practice effect, the postman, heart of the comet with gregory benford, earth, glory season, brightness reef, and infinitys shore, as well as the shortstory collections the river of time and otherness. Here is multipleaward winning author david brins most important, most ambitious, and most universal.
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