The Uplift War

The planet Garth is dying, and a brutal alien race has taken it. The uplifted species who live there, raised to sentience by patron races, must fight their new overlords or face extinction.

The invasion unfolds against a larger war. Galactic fleets clash across the Five Galaxies in a hunt for the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, and Garth is caught in the middle of it.

The setting is a future universe with one governing rule: no species reaches sentience unaided, and each needs a patron race to uplift it. Humankind is the exception that unsettles everyone, because nobody knows who uplifted humans.

This is the third Uplift novel, after Sundiver and Startide Rising. It is space-opera science fiction, with large-scale conflict and a strong sense of invention.

The stakes reach past one occupied world to the survival of Terran society, Earth itself and the fate of all Five Galaxies.