Just received this product in the mail, bought it as a Print On Demand product (my first). It looks brand new (which it is), and now I am wondering why this has not been done earlier. I know there are other sites out there, but DriveThru is the only one I trust. The company they use for POD, Lightning Source, did a great job, and I will be ordering more soon. Thank You.

I am beyond delighted that RedBrick is re-releasing the Blue Planet v2 sourcebooks as PDFs (and high-quality ones, at that). I am especially pleased that their first release is the excellent and sadly long-out-of-print Ancient Echoes, a guide to the biology, history, and culture of genlifted cetaceans (in this case, bottlenose dolphins, orcas, common dolphins, belugas, and pilot whales, all available as player characters).

If you don't know Blue Planet, and you are a fan of any of the following [marine biology, well-researched but sense of wonder-inducing hard science fiction/biopunk, unique and evocative roleplaying settings], you owe it to yourself to check out BP. And since, for me at least, sentient cetaceans are the most fascinating aspect of the Blue Planet setting, this book is a real treat to finally have in electronic form. (I'm one of the lucky ones with a first-run print copy, but good luck finding one now.)

The PDF is clean and well-organized; the text is digital and crisp rather than just scanned from paper, and the bookmarks are thorough and sensible. But above and beyond that, this is one of the best sourcebooks for what I think is pretty inarguably the best hard SF roleplaying game ever made. RedBrick plans to support the Blue Planet line further as soon as the original v2 books are reprinted/epublished, and I encourage you to support them in their revitalization of an absolutely compelling, wonderfully gameable setting.

In short, Ancient Echoes and Blue Planet in general receive my highest possible recommendation.