Sundiver
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Sundiver is the first book of David Brin's first Uplift trilogy. The book has been reissued in New York by Spectra Books in 1996 with ISBN 0553269828.
The book follows the story of expeditions launched from Mercury into the Sun itself, and Jacob's attempts to find out what lies before the strange sequence of events that befall the expedition before it is too late.
Although set in the same universe as the rest of the other Uplift books, it is set a considerable amount of time before the other books, and shares none of the same characters, apart from Jacob Demwa, who is mentioned as the mentor of Tom Orley and Gillian Baskin, and Helene Alvarez (née de Silva), who is mentioned in Startide Rising as Credeiki's former captain aboard the James Cook and who appears in The Uplift War to sign a treaty with the Thennanin.
The next book in the trilogy is Startide Rising.