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The '''''Uplift''''' Series is a science-fiction series created by author [[David Brin]]. Several centuries into the future, humanity has matured as a species, cleaned up the Earth, more-or-less achieved world peace, and even used genetic engineering to bestow sapience on chimpanzees and bottlenose dolphins. However, Earthlings make contact with an intergalactic, multi-species alien civilization, and find out that they're extremely primitive by "Galactic" standards. Every other spacefaring species got where it is by being "uplifted" by a patron race, and were handed amazingly advanced technology on a silver platter. Many species consider humanity's belief that they evolved sapience without genetic engineering to be a blasphemy worthy of extinction or enslavement.
The Uplift Universe consists of six novels, a novella, a short story, a [[GURPS]] supplement, and a [[Universe Compendium]].
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* [[Space Opera]]
* [[Split Personality]]: Jacob Demwa's "Mr. Hyde." {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] when Jacob realizes Mr. Hyde was actually just an elaborate game his mind was playing with itself}}.
* [[Standard Sci
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Jophur and Traeki are made of stacks of rings which have independent personalities and thoughts, but are sentient only as a group. And they're not even the most exotic alien species -- the other orders of life, such as hydrogen-breathers and quantum life, are generally ''much'' weirder.
* [[The Symbiote]]:
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** {{spoiler|Takkata-Jim}} in ''Startide Rising''. {{spoiler|His}} entire betrayal was all to save ''Streaker'' and the crew, and get them home to Earth.
** At the end of ''Sundiver'', Helene figures out {{spoiler|Pring Culla's}} reasons for {{spoiler|sabotaging Sundiver: he}} was part of a long-term plot to free {{spoiler|the Pring species}} from a very harsh client indenture, and was trying to protect Earthclan by {{spoiler|making them look like harmless fools,}} so other races would ignore them instead of trying to kill them.
** In the ''Uplift Storm'' trilogy, the Rothen invasion of Jijo turns out to be caused by {{spoiler|Lieutenant Tish't}}, a Danikenite who believes the Rothen are humanity's patrons. {{spoiler|She}} secretly told them ''Streaker's'' location and heading, thinking they'd help the ship get home safely.
* [[What We Now Know to Be True]]:
** The Galactics have nothing but contempt for the Earthling concept of the mathematical continuum, and thus for any science not based on discrete mathematics. This may be justified, since even some real life Earthlings regard the continuum as a useful shortcut that we can forget about once we have sufficient computing power.
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