Before the arrival of homo sapiens, five Patron Lines were established to govern the creation and interaction of species. Over time the Lines and the Galactic Library have been corrupted. But a human expedition to the sun begins to uncover hidden secrets. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula award.

On the distant planet of Jijo, five exiled races established by the Progenitors, live side by side. How they arrived there is no longer known - the only clues are ancient relics and fragmented stories. But then a craft appears in the sky, and it seems that the races of Jijo have not been forgotten.

Al Morris is a private investigator. Actually, he's lots of private investigators. For he lives in a world in which every person, every day, can be in any number of places at the same time. It's the world of dittos. It is our world. Welcome to the future, where Al is about to be thrown into chaos.

In post-apocalypse America, a survivor wanders the aftermath of a devastating war, trading tales for food and shelter. Fate touches him when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker and begins to weave his greatest tale - that of a world on the way to recovery.

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After Colin Blakeney has been missing for 300 years, the crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E detect a stray transporter beam in deep space, and set out to solve a mystery of ages. That's if they can avert all-out interstellar war with the race known as Palami.

This is the third book in the Uplift series. Humanity has contacted their Patron Line and uplifted chimpanzees and dolphins to full partnership. But on a distant planet occupied by Earth humans and neo-chimps, it seems the chimps have information concerning the location of the Progenitors.

Privacy, far from being a right, hampers accountability, the foundation of a civil society. Brin shows that openness is more liberating than secrecy and advocates a society with two-way transparency. The main threat to society, he warns, is surveillance technology being monopolized by the few.

'The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre' - John Clute, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION

David Brin, author of the brilliant Uplift series, continues Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction series