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Heaven’s Reach

The Uplift Trilogy, Book 3

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Heaven’s Reach

By: David Brin
Narrated by: George Wilson
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The final volume of the Uplift trilogy by Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Brin, Heaven’s Reach brings readers back to the planet Jijo one last time. The starship Streaker is still on the run with its dangerous cargo of ancient artifacts when the prophesied Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. As each race battles for control and chaos reigns, the truth about the Five Galaxies and The Progenitors finally comes to light.

Up for more? Listen to the rest of the Uplift saga.©1998 David Brin (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC Adventure First Contact Science Fiction Space Opera

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"The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre." ( The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)
Inventive Sci-fi • Thought-provoking Universe • Phenomenal Voice Acting • Believable Ending • Unique Voices
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Excellent finish to the series. The potential for more is possible. Always has interesting viewpoints.

Heaven’s Reach

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It is a masterpiece of its genre, on par with the Lord of the Rings, if not greater. You will not be wasting your time.

Get this.

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Not to give the ending away, so this sentence is your spoiler warning. This is the hardest earned happy ending that was earned. They were chased around the galaxy, abused by older races, bullied by their peers, lied to by libraries, and adopting some friends that they had to protect or see them enslaved by others. Then at the end, they finally get to a place where they could have been ok, but they have to fight another battle.

DAVID BRIN just let someone, anyone be happy! I don't care who you choose, but just give someone a nice comfortable place to ride off into the sunset.

Crowning Moments of Awesome, FOR EVERYONE

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Great conclusion to the trilogy.
Voice acting is phenomenal, Mother approves.
All hail David Brin.

Thought provoking and epic conclusion

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The Uplift books are rightfully among the best of the best sci fi. A truly enjoyable complicated world with its complicated laws.

a fabulous final book to great series

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Heavens Reach has a believable ending to the series without suffering from magic anything is possible storytelling that many space operas can suffer from.

Great galactic scale ending to a great series.

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The first two books in this trilogy set the stage for this installment, but the story elements that contribute to that effort are buried under boring manusia. You could easily distill out all of that unnecessary background development and get one book a third as long as either of the first two books.

Overall I really liked this book, except for one massive plot hole: What happened to Jillian's husband and his crew? This really bugs me.

Finally, something interesting happens.

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When mulling over something in their head characters will repeat essentially the same paragraph 2-3 times in a row, then half a dozen other characters will do the same on the exact same topic, for example on the topic of “what is uplift” which anyone reading the series should know by the 6th book. It’s worse in this book than any of the previous books, which makes me think their wasn’t enough critical editing happening.

Overall the Uplift series had a very unique scifi universe and it’s a shame Brin didn’t write more books.

Narration by George Wilson was awesome. Unfortunately if you’re in a quiet room and have the volume up you can hear him constantly clearing spit out of his mouth between sentences.

Great book, could have used some editing

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it was long and involved but well worth the effort. Brin has a way of bringing the human touch to the most wildly imaginative Science Fiction

another winner from Brin

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If you liked the first 5 books then I will assume you will like this one so this is not going to be much of a review other than to say how it ended.

The ship Streaker goes off of the planet Jijo and back in space and is still trying to reach Earth - its cool because meet with various orders of life: Hydrogen Breathers, the Retired, Machines, and the Transcendent.

The series ends pretty well but I was a little confused with the whole series, I was left wondering mostly about the alien races and how to distinguish between them - the narrator did a good job at making different voices but I still had trouble knowing weather they were Humans or Aliens, and if Aliens what race were they.

in the end I was still a little confused but I should have gotten the book "Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe" maybe that would have helped - I will go and read these books again in the future and will get that book then also.

The last book, it ends pretty good

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