In Startide Rising, David Brin began the epic adventure of a crew of neo-dolphins, their starship Streaker, and a terrible, war-inspiring secret. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards for the novel, the story of which remained unfinished for years.

Now, with the Uplift Storm trilogy, Brin is continuing - but probably not concluding - the story.

The first novel, Brightness Reef, returned us to Brin's universe where the "Six Galaxies" are ruled by an eons-old code of Uplift. According to this code, one race of advanced aliens finds a promising, pre-sentient and then grants it the gift of intelligence through the power of genetic engineering. Then, after a time of servitude, their client race can become patrons themselves.

Take the horrors of the Vietnam War, combine them with an advanced state of virtual reality where human soldiers control their soldierboys -- or mechanical soldiers -- remotely, and throw in a new hi-tech weapon that threatens to end life as we know it, and you have Joe Haldeman's latest creation, Forever Peace.

As Haldeman himself explains before beginning this novel, Forever Peace is not a continuation of his 1975 book, The Forever War (which won the Hugo, Nebula and Ditmar Awards). Rather, it is an extended look at some of that novel's problems that did not exist (mainly due to technological advances of the last two decades) at the time it was written.

The end story of the dragonriders of Pern, who guide their magnificent beasts into battle against the menacing, life-devouring Thread, has been told.

The saga that began with the first novel, Dragonflight, ended in epic fashion in All the Weyrs of Pern. But while we may know how the story ends, we're just learning how it began.

We've known the story of this science fiction/fantasy classic for years. The first settlers of Pern found it to be a remarkable, remote planet with few mineral resources that seemed custom made for their planned agricultural, low-tech lifestyle.

In the last bugger war, humanity was nearly wiped out by their insectoid enemies. They were stopped by humanity's greatest military mind. Decades later, that mind is dead and the leaders of the Earth need to find someone to match his prowess.To that end they have built a massive space station called the ‘Battle School.'