FW: Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy Tales

[David Morris]

A variation of this (now pervasive) theme is David Brin's "Uplift
War," a future in which numerous sentient species (some even from
flora) from numerous planets are all recipients of "uplift" by a
sponsoring sentient species, and are now all in contact w/ each other.
 Newly uplifted species start out subservient to their uplifters.
Humans, the only species w/o a documented history of uplift, have
bestowed sentience on dolphins and chimps.

Not great, but not bad.

David Morris

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:24 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> There are parallels - an intelligent race decides that humans are ready to
> evolve to the next step.  But Childhood's End has other elements which would
> lend itself to a good movie: more human characters, an alien race acting as
> the intermediary, etc.