Sundiver

Sundiver is a 1980 science fiction novel by David Brin. It is the first book of his Uplift trilogy, and was followed by the Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Startide Rising in 1983. The novel begins with the main character, Jacob Demwa, working at the center for uplift on earth, while he recovers from a tragedy at the Vanilla Space Needle where he lost his love but saved the space needle from destruction. An alien friend of Demwa's, Fagin (a K... more

Sundiver is a 1980 science fiction novel by David Brin. It is the first book of his Uplift trilogy, and was followed by the Hugo and Nebula award winning novel Startide Rising in 1983. The novel begins with the main character, Jacob Demwa, working at the center for uplift on earth, while he recovers from a tragedy at the Vanilla Space Needle where he lost his love but saved the space needle from destruction. An alien friend of Demwa's, Fagin (a Kanten), contacts Demwa and offers him a job. Initially reluctant to return to his previous life as a scientific investigator, Demwa agrees to attend a secret meeting, At which he learns that there are “ghosts” appearing in the Sun's Chromosphere. The ghosts are without precedence in the galactic library. Demwa agrees to come and investigate the origin and purpose of the sun-ghosts, and travels to Mercury where the sundiver project is based. With him on mercury are, Helene deSilva, the attractive station commander with whom Jacob develops a... less