David Brin has 2 trilogies with very similar names "The Uplift Saga" and "The Uplift Wars". When I started purchasing the books, I got the series intermixed. As a result, the first book I listened to was book 3 of The Uplift Wars. So with this book I'm going to listen each of the trilogies in sequence. For book details, ee one of my blogs: http://dahuntsr.posterous.com/ or http://audiobookaddit.blogspot.com/