An entertaining prequel to 'Startide Rising' and the 'Uplift War'. If you've read those books, two of the greatest sci-fi novels in the last 3 decades, this will be an enjoyable piece of background. And if you haven't read those two novels, this is the perfect place to start the exploration of David Brin's amazing universe. As the title indicates, this novel focuses on mankind's first ship to sail inside the sun itself but that is just the beginning.
of all the intelligent races in the universe, none has survivied withour theguidanc eo the Patrons--except mankind.But, if our Patrons began the Uplift of human race aeons ago, why did they abandon us? Circling the sun, in the caverns of Mercury Expedition Sundiver prpares for the most momentous journey in human history. A journey into the broiling inferno of the sun...to find out our final desany inthe cosmic order of the Sundiver. The untimate voyage.
