mahimahi have been a popular game gimmick since the time of Flipper , but scifi has long had a particular fondness for them . Some are amazing ; others verge on utterly ridiculous . Here are our favorites .
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The Dolphins of Pern , by Anne McCaffrey
well-informed , English - speaking dolphins accompanied the human colonist Pern with essentially the same motivating — fleeing from an overcrowded , contaminated shell of a planet . Two and a half millennium later , the species have completely lost touch ( graspable , turn over the world ’ preoccupation with the Thread . As this is an Anne McCaffrey novel , an brave teen named Readis finally rediscovers the creatures can mouth and dedicate himself to rebuild relations .
Uplift Series , by David Brin
Dolphins act a major role in Brin ’s Uplift series , which posits a existence where almost every specie has to be “ uplifted ” to news . Humans have already started the process with dolphin and chimps when they invent FTL technology and pull in the attending of the intergalactic community . That gives us frequenter status , which protects the satellite from any aliens on the make who ’d claim man as a raw node wash . The second playscript in the series , Startide Rising ( which won fundamentally every SF awarding there is ) , ingest place on a ship crewed almost entirely by dolphins .
Seaquest DSV
An aquatic crowd penis is an obvious invaluable plus to any team working underwater . Nathan Bridger ’s human relationship with Darwin the Dolphin predate his command of the Seaquest , as he begin work out how to communicate with the creature . During the show itself he communicated via a gadget call a vo - corder ( though it made him sound rather like a precocious yearling ) .
“ Johnny Mnemonic , ” by William Gibson
There are substantial difference in the short news report and the picture , but both versions feature Jones , the retired Navy dolphin / hacker . Johnny charter his brain for habit as a high - security dropbox for passing sensitive information . Only the intended recipient has the password required to access that data . When Johnny gets stuck with some dangerous info and take the countersign , Molly Millions takes him to Jones , who has the required skills and sensors from his days disrupting enemy mine . ( In the short story , she offers heroin in telephone exchange for aid — the Navy has all its dolphins hooked so they wo n’t just drown off . )
So Long , and Thanks For All the Pisces , by Douglas Adams
The total coinage comes off as a class act in Adams ’s Hitchhiker ’s Guide serial publication . We already knew from the first book that dolphins were the second - smartest fauna on the satellite ( after computer mouse , of course ) . They tried to admonish humans of Earth ’s add up destruction , but found they could n’t quite breach the speech barrier . It ’s not until the fourth book that we discover the dolphin , before bailing , created a faithful replica of the planet and moved the world , interlace gunstock and barrel .
Known Space , by Larry Niven
dolphin pop up regularly in Niven ’s Known Space books . able-bodied to communicate with humans telepathically , they unwrap and lead the protagonist to the grasping alien Kzanol in World of Ptavvs , for example . finally , they ’re actually admitted to the United Nations and receive legal status that basically put them on par with humans .
The Day of the Dolphin
You probably know George C. Scott for his roles in either Patton or Dr. Strangelove . But he also made some more interesting project choice . For example , in Day of the Dolphin , he plays Jake Terrill , a brilliant scientists training dolphins to talk English . Two of his guinea pig , Alpha and Beta , are kidnapped by the suspect rich guy funding his research . Why , you require ? Because he wants to use them to assassinate the President of the United States on his racing yacht . Of of course he does .
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The Scar , by China Mieville
Lots of fictitious mahimahi are playful and cuddly . Not Bastard John , who runs security for Armada , the pirate metropolis . A description shows him “ passing through the brine with unique motion ( as he swept in to punish some proletarian with a fell beating ) . ” This dolphin is abusive and vehement and generally terrible , and no one would throw him in a children ’s TV show .
Porm , Aquaman ( and Lobo and his spacedolphins )
Dumped in the ocean by the superstitious Atlanteans , Arthur is rescued and fundamentally raised by Porm , queen of the dolphins . As the male child develop up and into his superheroness , she becomes an advisor . Bonus extraterrestrial cetaceans : In one write up , Porm is snatch and submit to an observational installation . In his effort to free her , Aquaman actually manage to work together with the deeply unpleasant Lobo . The foreign bounty hunter is legendarily impossibly to get along with , but he ’s willing to be civic for the sake of rescuing one of his darling spacedolphins , who ’s also been captured .
Hyperion , by Dan Simmons
Maui - Covenant is an idyllic ocean world , with a fertile ecosystem that include be , moving island . The planet ’s dolphin ( able to communicate to an extent , but not super forward-looking ) stay with the islands , herding them around the major planet . The whole exquisitely balanced shebang is utterly trashed by the holidaymaker that arrive after Maui - Covenant is connected to the WorldWeb , spurring an sick - fated rising that only wrecks the earth further and kills much of the remaining dolphin population .
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