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Title: Heaven's Reach (The Uplift Saga, Book 6) by David Brin ISBN: 0-553-57473-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 11 May, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (78 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: This time, finally, at last, he's written it. The best book
Comment: I had to buy this in hardback, but I deserved it 'cos of a long plane journey. Glad I did. This might be the Best Book Ever. This book is number 3 of a trilogy or number 6 of a six-logy. If its number six, then number one (Sun Diver) is so-so, number two (Star-tide rising) is good, number 3 (the Uplift War) is the biggest dissappointment in my life, number 4 (Brightness Reef) was a nice idea, could have been better, number 5 (Infinity's Shore) was too slow, should never have been written... ... which is a shame because you don't get the full benefit of number six unless you've read most of the rest. Certainly you'd need 2,3,4. Then read Heaven's Reach. This time, finally, he actually does justice to his ideas. This time you get an uplifted monkey watching a human talk to a Hoon at the inter-galactic equivalent of a passport control queue and all the 5 previous books become worth it. Just for that paragraph alone. Plus the space battles. Plus the transcendance philosophies, plus the cosmology, plus the BIG PICTURE, plus the inter-species interplay. Its damn good.

By the way, I don't give top marks easily. I was one of the few who thought "Enders Game" was merely a 7/10.

Rating: 3
Summary: As a Brin fan...I found this book disappointing.
Comment: If you are a fan of the Uplift series and have read the other Uplift novels (especially Startide Rising, and the two previous tomes in this Trilogy) then you have to buy this book to find out what happens, but you will probably be disappointed as I was. Brin's technique of trying to maintain multiple characters storylines, jumping from one storyline to the others just at significant activity points (e.g. battles, "Natural" disasters, appearance of "gods", etc.) and eventually returning to that storyline after the "action", then recapping that only in the words/thoughts of his characters I found ultimately to be frustrating and not dramatic at all. The net result for me was reading this book was more like a chore than a pleasure. It took me almost a week to finish it...no "can't put it down", all-night reads. Like the other "Hard SF" novels of Dr. Brin, this book also contains a lot of fiction based on our current state of physics and cosmology science, and most of the story is scientifically plausible, but I was disappointed in the ending, when the major Galactic races besieging Earth were just frightened away. That was not plausible or satisfying. There are still a lot of unanswered questions in the 5 Galaxy Universe, and I would hope Dr. Brin would deign at some point to tell us the Tom Orley/Creideiki tale (perhaps in a slightly more straightforward manner...).

Rating: 3
Summary: The weakest in the series
Comment: I could not get enough of this series, and eagerly looked forward to each new book as it was published. Then this one was released and the whole story seemed to fall apart. It just didn't fit for me - I should have stopped at book 5.

Brin seems to have rushed through the later parts of this book, and not taken the time or attention to detail that the earlier books had. Perhaps if it had been spread out into two books, it would have been a more fullfilling read.

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