I'd love to find out what happened to Tom, Toshio, Dennie, Keepiru, etc.
I remember reading the short story "Lung Fish" and thinking that the crew of
the lifeboat might end up finding a dilapidated outpost of a robotic
civilization, even before machine intelligences were mentioned in the uplift
books.
----- Original Message -----
From: medieva...@aol.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: New Uplift Universe question....
You mean Uplift novels.
Dr. Brin is in the marketing stage for his new close (to present)
future history.
Personally, I've done everything I can to try to kick him back into
Uplift mode. Nothing has worked.
(There was a note somewhere that he has a humor Uplift short
story in the works.)
A return to Jijo was his original intention, as mentioned in
the revised issue of GURPS Uplift. I don't think that's still
valid. Fans want a return to the main civilization.
So what next?
The obvious desire of every reader is to see Gill and Tom
together again.
Not yet, I think.
At least not in just one novel. That'd be advancing too
far too quickly.
And there are several novel ideas that don't even
advance in time.
The Brothers of the Night on Calafia.
The "true" history of how we got Calafia.
The Hoon escape of 2000 years ago.
And my favorite:
Earth from the Garthling Uplift Ceremony to
Streaker's arrival.
Now for someone who's looking for hints as to
what will happen after Streaker's return, go
reread Contacting Aliens. Too much detail was
given away there if one actually goes looking
for it.
And I've suggested to Dr. Brin a novel based upon
the Rousit.
Anybody remember the Rousit? They got left out
of Contacting Aliens.
William Taylor
Name the ship piloted by Bugs Bunny:
Whatta Maru
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