List of Uplift Universe planets
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A list of the fictional planets featured in the Uplift Universe series of novels by David Brin.
- Calafia — A water-world inhabited by humans and neo-dolphins, currently occupied by the Soro. The name may refer to Califia, a mythical Black Amazon.
- Cathrhennlin — A Tymbrimi University World.
- Deemi — A world leased to humans on the condition that they run the Galactic prison. It is bathed in ultraviolet radiation. Most of its biosphere is aquatic.
- Garth — A planet with strange biology in The Uplift War.
- Horst — A disaster world, assigned to Humanity less than 6 generations before the Streaker crisis, and populated by primitivists.
- Jijo — A planet in Galaxy #4 where humans and other sophont refugees have illegally hidden, in the case of the Humans to avoid potential extermination, and in the case of the G'kek, certain extermination.
- Jophekka — The homeworld of the Jophur, sapient and ambitious sap ring stacks.
- Juthtath — A Tymbrimi world.
- Kazzkark — Minor planet, where an important base of the Navigation Institute gathers data from E-Space.
- Kithrup — A water-world rich in heavy metals which form part of the biochemical structure of its life. Mildly toxic to non-native life. Also the "retirement" home of a neurotic race with enormous psi power. From Startide Rising.
- NuDawn — A pre-Contact colony (whose name may be a pun with Aurora - New Dawn) where an incident with Hoon inspectors brought Jophur to massacre the human colonists.
- Oakka — A "green-green" world, where the air is difficult to breathe. There was a Library branch there, but they were corrupted and tried to capture Streaker.
- Omnivarium — A world inhabited by birds that mimic any sound, a fact discovered when the birds started mimicking the sounds of explorers performing coitus.
- Tanith — The location of the nearest full Galactic Library branch near Terra.
- Urchachka — A very dry planet, homeland of the Urs.
