Humanity – echoes of the Golden Age of traditional twentieth-century American sf can be heard here – is the sole example in the galaxies of a "wolfling" species, i.e. The Uplift novels focus mainly on the incursion of Earth civilization into this vast structure. In the process of Uplift, a sapient species subjects a non-sapient species to uplifting genetic modification (see Genetic Engineering), creating a subsequent client/patron relationship between the two species, a relationship which softens over millennia. All thinking life in the Universe – or at least throughout the Five Galaxies encompassed in the six books so far – has been created and regulated by, and may remain under the remote control of, a Progenitor species, now billions of years old (if it survives). The basic premise of Uplift is simple enough, though its workings-out as the Uplift series continued became increasingly complicated. As a whole, the series established Brin as the most popular and – with the exception of Greg Bear – the most important author of Hard SF to appear in the 1980s he retained this position through the 1990s, though his production – at least of fiction – has slowed in the early twenty-first century. Startide Rising won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards for best novel The Uplift War won a Hugo. (1950- ) US author with advanced degrees in engineering and physics, who began publishing sf with his first novel, Sundiver ( 1980), which is also the first volume in the ongoing Uplift sequence (see Uplift), for which he remains best known: it continued with Startide Rising ( 19) and The Uplift War ( 1987), the two being assembled as Earthclan (omni 1987) a further integrated sequence, the Uplift Storm Trilogy, includes Brightness Reef ( 1995), Infinity's Shore ( 1996) and Heaven's Reach ( 1998).
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