The Uplift War

Hostile aliens take an Earth colony hostage in this New York Times –bestselling hard science fiction adventure by the author of Startide Rising .   Although they were uplifted and given full sapience, the Bururalli clearly weren’t ready to run a planet, almost wrecking Garth. As a “salvage world,” it was given to despised Earthlings, assigned to reclaim it from the brink. Many senior Galactics—leaders of the Five Galaxies—hoped humanity would fail. But now Garth is peacefully surging back,