• Heaven’s Reach

  • The Uplift Trilogy, Book 3
  • By: David Brin
  • Narrated by: George Wilson
  • Length: 22 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (369 ratings)

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Heaven’s Reach

By: David Brin
Narrated by: George Wilson
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The final volume of the Uplift trilogy by Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Brin, Heaven’s Reach brings readers back to the planet Jijo one last time. The starship Streaker is still on the run with its dangerous cargo of ancient artifacts when the prophesied Time of Changes rocks the galaxy. As each race battles for control and chaos reigns, the truth about the Five Galaxies and The Progenitors finally comes to light.

Up for more? Listen to the rest of the Uplift saga.
©1998 David Brin (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

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"The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre." ( The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction)

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Crowning Moments of Awesome, FOR EVERYONE

Not to give the ending away, so this sentence is your spoiler warning. This is the hardest earned happy ending that was earned. They were chased around the galaxy, abused by older races, bullied by their peers, lied to by libraries, and adopting some friends that they had to protect or see them enslaved by others. Then at the end, they finally get to a place where they could have been ok, but they have to fight another battle.

DAVID BRIN just let someone, anyone be happy! I don't care who you choose, but just give someone a nice comfortable place to ride off into the sunset.

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Too much filler

I was enjoying the stories in this series, but each book in this series is filled with progressively more filler. The author repeats the same information over and over and over and... I can tolerate a certain amount of that, but after this book I refused to continue the series.

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Thought provoking and epic conclusion

Great conclusion to the trilogy.
Voice acting is phenomenal, Mother approves.
All hail David Brin.

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The last book, it ends pretty good

If you liked the first 5 books then I will assume you will like this one so this is not going to be much of a review other than to say how it ended.

The ship Streaker goes off of the planet Jijo and back in space and is still trying to reach Earth - its cool because meet with various orders of life: Hydrogen Breathers, the Retired, Machines, and the Transcendent.

The series ends pretty well but I was a little confused with the whole series, I was left wondering mostly about the alien races and how to distinguish between them - the narrator did a good job at making different voices but I still had trouble knowing weather they were Humans or Aliens, and if Aliens what race were they.

in the end I was still a little confused but I should have gotten the book "Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe" maybe that would have helped - I will go and read these books again in the future and will get that book then also.

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Great adventure wonderfully narrated

The story is outstanding and contains some of the most inventive and thought provoking hard Sci Fi out there.

The audiobook really brought the book to life for me. Wilson’s range of voices providing Brin’s huge case unique voices for each. I will never watch a dolphin without hearing Wilson’s vocalization.

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a fabulous final book to great series

The Uplift books are rightfully among the best of the best sci fi. A truly enjoyable complicated world with its complicated laws.

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Heaven’s Reach

Excellent finish to the series. The potential for more is possible. Always has interesting viewpoints.


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Get this.

It is a masterpiece of its genre, on par with the Lord of the Rings, if not greater. You will not be wasting your time.

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another winner from Brin

it was long and involved but well worth the effort. Brin has a way of bringing the human touch to the most wildly imaginative Science Fiction

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Brin is one of the best.

Many seem to think Brin wastes time in the 3rd installment re-hashing old stuff. But one of the things that's jarring about Brin's Uplift trilogy, at first, is all the unrelated story lines and how he jumps from one to the other to the other. Some might never take to it. Many find it very engaging, and those are probably the ones who immerse themselves in the story lines, and don't want or need a re-statement.

But I read the first two books right about the time they came out, and never finished the series. I just remember I really LIKED the world-building and Brin's unique approach to inter-species societies. Probably it was Alvin who made me want to come back and finish it off on Audible.

Anyway, my point is that, coming back to it about 20 years later, the 'redundant' back-story was helpful in reminding me of what happened in the previous 2 books. I had totally forgotten about the derelict fleet they used to help the Streaker escape, even though it was a pretty big plot element.

As well as readers such as myself, who were some distance removed in time, there are probably readers who appreciate some of the redundancy, to help them keep all the different story lines straight. I remember when I first started on the first book, it was kind of hard to keep everything straight.

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