Brightness Reef (Bantam Spectra Book) - Hardcover

Brin, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553100343 ISBN 13: 9780553100341

Publisher: Spectra, 1995

Synopsis

In the centuries after the planet Jijo is abandoned for the sake of restoring ecological balance, six different species secretly colonize the planet and live in ongoing fear of being discovered and punished by the Five Galaxy patrollers

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Review:

Millennia ago the Five Galaxies decreed the planet Jijo off limits. But in the last thousand years six races have begun resettling Jijo, embracing a pre-industrial life to hide their existence from the Galactics. Overcoming their differences, the Six have built a society based on mutual tolerance for one another and respect for the planet they live on. But that has all changed with an event the Six have feared for hundreds of years: the arrival of an outside ship. Author David Brin has returned to his popular Uplift universe in this, the first book of a new trilogy.

From the Publisher:

Once, millennia ago, the advanced Buyur civilization held sway on Jijo. But eventually the Buyur abandoned the world, leaving it to lie fallow and restore its ecological balance. Ever since, the vast civilization of the Five Galaxies has used patrols, guardian machines, and sanctions of law to prevent resettlement on Jijo until the planet has been revitalized. But over the centuries it has been resettled. Groups of sentient beings, fleeing persecution or neglect, have ignored the laws, evaded the patrols, and settled on Jijo. They now live in hiding, in dread of the "Judgment Day" on which the Five galaxies discover their presence on Jijo and bring punishment upon them. Then a strange ship arrives in Jijo's skies, and the uneasy peace is shattered.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0553100343
• ISBN 13: 9780553100341
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 514