Brightness Reef
by David Brin
ISBN: 0553890158
ISBN-13: 9780553890150
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
The fourth book in the acclaimed "Uplift" series concerns the appearance of a mysterious spaceship above Jijo, a colonized world where a society of disparate renegades from many worlds have illegally settled.
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"The plotting is complex, the world building excellent, and the characterization sound throughout. Those who like their science fiction in large, complex doses will be anxious for the next volume of the trilogy." -- Ann Welton
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Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 1995
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