Infinity's Shore

Written by David Brin

Narrated by George Wilson

A futuristic novel of epic proportions from Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin, Infinity's Shore is the second book in the new Uplift Trilogy. On the planet Jijo, peace is upended when the starship Streaker arrives, bringing with it knowledge of a two-billion-year-old fleet and hordes of followers eager to exploit its power. Publishers Weekly hails Brin's "extraordinary capacity to handle a wide-ranging narrative and to create . complex alien races."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 11, 2009
• ISBN: 9781440775390

David Brin

David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.

Reviews for Infinity's Shore

[Timothy R Ford · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Couldn't finish it, though I made it to chapter 38. I've read other Brin novels so I was truly disappointed. This one reads like a workshop experiment to ignore normal narrative thresholds for too many foreign/alien words/concepts (all painstakingly explained), too many characters, and too much exposition. Brin also seems to have devolved his plots to a loose collection of YA tropes or like an Orson Scott Card novel that hasn't yet been edited down for length. I assume if I'd been able to withstand to the end of 90+ chapters all 6 plotlines would resolve or at least intersect, but there are a finite number of books I will read this lifetime and this one will not be missed.

[phrim · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In Infinity's Shore, Brin continues the somewhat atypical story of the castaway races on Jijo from Brightness Reef, but also weaves in all the characters we know and love from his second Uplift book, Startide Rising. With this, of course, comes all of the galactic politics and intrigue that the readers have become accustomed to. This time, the main antagonists are a particularly alien alien race called the Jophur, who are composed of series of quasi-sentient rings merged into one being. It's fun following the supposedly unsophisticated Jijoans surprise the Jophur with their ingenuity, as well as how they learn about and interact with the Earthclan members from Startide Rising. In short, this is the classic David Brin space opera we're used to. My only big complaint is that Brin presents the reader with another non-ending ending, with it occurring pretty much in the middle of the action with very little resolved. Onto the next book, I guess...