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 Post subject: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:48 pm 
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This has been bugging me for a couple of days now. I would like to remember title of novel or possibly novella. Plot is based around alien planet that has a surface that is maybe 100% water. The settlers on this planet are humans and all manner of cetaceans, seems in this Earth of the future the whales (all species) were virtually doomed to extinction, and then a scientist discovered how to directly communicate with them. After that the remnant populations were whisked off Earth and sent to populate this foreign world. On this planet the whales and humans coexist, and sometimes interact cause all the whales can communicate with each other and all the humans. And in the scenario of the planet, the orcas are the closest to the humans. And in the story I am thinking of a human on this planet needs help from the whales to help solve a crime.

From what I know, and that is a very small amount, this might have been an prologue to the Uplift series. But I think I read this when I finishing up college, and that was like 25 yrs. ago. I know this question sounds really goofy. taraswizard
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 Post subject: Re: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:44 pm 
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I cannot help you. I can tell you it's definately NOT a David Brin book. The premise does sound like Brin, however, and there is an odd short story in Brin's collection, Otherness, called Bonding to Genji that comes sorta close to what you're talking about. If the spaceship Yamato rings any bells...(but it was writen in 1992) If you like this type of stuff I recommend the short story Surfacing in the Walter Jon Williams collection, Facets (1988) actually that long story sounds even closer to what you're looking for, if the Dwellers ring any futher bells. A truly facinating story, in any case. *****
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 Post subject: Re: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:02 pm 
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It's not Blue by Alison Sinclair, is it? The main thing I remember about that book is that the main character is some sort of data-criminal, and that there is a conflict between humans and marine-adapted humans <i></i>


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 Post subject: Re: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:30 am 
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G'day TW,

My first thought was The Godwhale by T.J.Bass...but it ain't.

I'm pretty sure it's Cachalot by Alan Dean Foster.

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 Post subject: Re: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 2:34 pm 
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I remember The Godwhale that was a fairly cool story! *****
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 Post subject: Re: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:51 pm 
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THANK YOU Dragonnemisis. Cachalot is absolutely right. taraswizard
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 Post subject: Re: forgot name of novel
PostPosted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:53 am 
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This thread made me think of Jack Vance's The Blue World. Someone could do an interesting compare-and-contrast on all these "water worlds", if they haven't already. Someone less lazy than me. ******************

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 Post subject: ???
PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 12:57 pm 
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...and me!

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