Uplift

Beneath the caverns of Mercury, the Sundiver Mission is getting ready to send a crew into the blazing interior of the sun. The goal is to learn where humanity stands in the order of life.

The universe here runs on a rule: no species reaches sentience on its own. A patron race must first uplift it. Humanity appears to be the exception, a species that climbed to the stars without help.

That fact puzzles some of the ancient, powerful Galactic Clans and angers others. Their reaction sets the stakes for everything that follows.

This omnibus collects the first three novels of the Uplift series: Sundiver, Startide Rising and The Uplift War. The story moves from Earth out across five galaxies, and it is science fiction on a large scale. It is built around the mystery of how humans got here without a patron, and what the explanation means for them.

The series has won the Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards.