Thennanin (Thenn-an-in) — A militant Galactic species.
Tsh't (Tish-oot) — A female neo-fin, the Streaker's fourth officer.
Tursiops — A vernacular word for neo-dolphins without Stenos gene grafts.
Tursiops amicus — A modern neo-dolphin. "Friendly bottlenose."
Tursiops truncatus — Natural bottlenose dolphins on Earth.
Tymbrimi (Tim-brye-me) — A Galactic race friendly to Earthmen, renowned for its cleverness.
Uplift — The process by which older spacefaring races bring new species into Galactic culture, through breeding and genetic engineering. The resulting client species serves its patron for a period of indenture to pay for this favor.
Wattaceti — A neo-fin non-commissioned officer.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAVID BRIN was born in 1950 in Southern California. He has been an engineer with Hughes Aircraft Co., and attended Caltech and the University of California at San Diego, where he completed doctoral studies on comets and asteroids. Dr. Brin is presently a consultant with the California Space Institute, a unit of the University of California, San Diego, doing advanced studies concerning the space shuttle and space science. He also teaches university physics and occasionally creative writing. His novel Startide Rising won the Hugo and Nebula Awards and his short story, "The Crystal Spheres" won the Hugo Award, as did his novel The Uplift War. His other novels include Sundiver, The Practice Effect and The Postman. He is currently at work on his next novel.