Startide Rising

Within a couple pages of beginning, I was sure I was going to hate Startide Rising. After just a few chapters, I already loved it. Startide Rising can shift pretty impulsively between philosophical poetry to farce, from wry humor to somber human expression. Whether midshipman youth or an uplifted species all characters take part in a goofy free-for-all fighting for equal treatment, wise cracks and just dealing with how weird the universe can be. I could see some readers a little frustrated by the jumping around, or maybe weirded out by human/dolphin sex, but I loved it. Yes, I just said that, I loved the dolphin sex (I can see the billboards now).

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