A review by sociotom
Startide Rising by David Brin

4.0

Despite the dolphins wearing spacesuits on the cover of this book, I somehow was unprepared for space-faring dolphins. Of course once I accepted the premise and just rolled with it, the story was a good amount of fun. There are a few things here and there that feel like "adult man in the 80s writing sci-fi," but luckily they don't detract from an overall story, so much as make the reader occasionally roll their eyes. That's few and far between, which means the rest of the story is some odd cross between adventure, sci-fi war, survival story, and political intrigue featuring - and I cannot stress this point enough - space-faring dolphins.

I haven't read any of David Brin's other books, so I can't speak to how the whole Uplift Saga fits together in terms of "read this book then this one," but as a standalone read Startide Rising was a fun time.