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Rating: - Hollow ending
The other books of Brin's uplift series are highly entertaining, however while this one has the same formula as the others it dissappoints by failing to deliver on the promised big ending. Sadly it's rather reminiscent of a big-budget movie that has sacrified plot for special-effects - lots of bangs, but little
human interest to tie them together, and what interest exists is pretty deflated by the pointless `secret' that Herbie is supposed
to represent. Buy the other Uplift books, but ... Read More

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Rating: - sweet & sour conclusion
I have been waiting a long time for this "Uplift storm" conclusion. Following the wolflings all around the known galaxies kept me off sleep through a lot of nights, so I expected a lot from "Heaven's Reach".

Well, I must say that all my hopes have not been fulfilled. Though I couldn't stop reading it till the very last word - and that means a pleasurable reading, as well as some "family conflicts" - I was left a little disappointed when I close the book. Several points have to ... Read More

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Rating: - A BIG Space Opera
As far as the sheer scale of this novel goes, only Greg Bear and Stephen Baxter come close to achieving what Brin achieved in this. The Uplift Storm trilogy started fairly quietly in Brightness Reef, and then raised a gear in Infinity's Shore by the addition of the Streaker, first seen in the brilliant Startide Rising. However, in Heavens Reach, he offers a complex story which raises the stakes immeasurably higher, and shakes the very foundations of the magnificently crafted uplift Universe. ... Read More

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Rating: - Brilliant,
This book is just brilliant, a very worthy conclusion for the Uplift Storm Trilogy. But it is not as good as Brin's masterpiece Startide Rising. If you like the other works of Brin you can't do much wrong by reading

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Rating: - Disappointing.
Some good ideas, but he doesn't quite carry them off. Brin's second trilogy (Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, and HR) starts really well - interesting, novel and lively - but this final volume is sadly dull.

As in Clarke's Rama series, descriptions of the Mystic Wonder of the Universe tend to come over as Merely Implausible. And the unconvincing pyrotechnics take over from the characters, which is a particular shame since some of these characters are, in the earlier books, particularly ... Read More

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