Richard S. Crawford wrote: >
>Standard spoiler alert applies. I doubt that anything in here is going to >spoil anything about the _Uplift Storm_ trilogy, but... well, be careful >anyway. > . . . . . . . . . . . >1. Who uplifted humanity after all, or was it self-uplift? I don't > feel like this question was ultimately answered... I think it's *obvious* for the *external* readers that humanity was self-uplifted. The fun of the series, however, is seeing how all races and characters seem to dismiss this as absurd and keep trying to find man's patron. >2. Whatever inspired Creideiki to investigate the Shallow Cluster > in the first place? A hunch O:-) >I was quite happy with the conclusion of the trilogy overall, and I don't >see how any more satisfying stories could be written in the Uplift >universe; anything else would be anti-climactic. There *is* another short story, it's _Temptation_, found in the book _Far Horizons_. It's about the dolphins that were left on Jijo. And there are stories that can be told, notice that after Gal4 was separated there are really *three* different "Uplift Universes" where interesting stories may be written. Alberto Monteiro
