A review by jazzypizzaz
Startide Rising by David Brin

3.0

The first part was hard to get into, but luckily it picked up momentum by the second half, with an exciting build up to the climax. Pretty interesting world-building (dolphins in space!) and ideas about humanity/sentience/language. Relatively flat characters (hard to keep track of the aliens especially) and about what I expected from a male scifi author from the 80s, but okay for the most part.

I'm definitely eager to find out more about the broader scientific and political implications of some of their discoveries in the next book!