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David Brin

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David Brin is a scientist, speaker, and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Existence, his latest novel, offers an unusual scenario for first contact. His ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. A movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on his post-apocalyptic novel, The Postman. Startide Rising won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. The Uplift War also won the Hugo Award.

His non-fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? -- deals ...more

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Criticize America amid our civil war? Sure. But help us! And to heck with ingrate nonsense.

We are just back from the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles, where it was announced NANCY KRESS will be the next Huzzah! I campaigned for it. Nan is a wonder and a joy and brilliantly deserves it.

Elsewise at LACon: accompanied by other brilliant women (wife and daughter) I gave a talk about AIlien Minds (my new book on artificial intelligence) to a packed double room, and did a fic

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David Brin’s books

Average rating: 3.94 · 273,354 ratings · 13,242 reviews · 327 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Postman 3.89 avg rating — 38,069 ratings — published 1985 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 33,766 ratings — published 1983 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 27,634 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 28,041 ratings — published 1980 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,732 ratings — published 1999 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 11,131 ratings — published 1995 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinity's Shore (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 9,042 ratings — published 1996 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earth 3.93 avg rating — 8,432 ratings — published 1990 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3) by David Brin (Goodreads Author), Jim Burns (Illustrator) 3.98 avg rating — 7,420 ratings — published 1998 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existence 3.78 avg rating — 7,288 ratings — published 2012 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Uplift Saga (6 books)
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Jim Burns (Illustrator)

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Uplift Storm Trilogy (3 books)
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Jim Burns (Illustrator)

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Earth (1 book)
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)

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New Moon (Luna, #1)

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David Brin wrote a new blog post Criticize America amid our civil war? Sure. But help us! And to heck with ingrate nonsense. We are just back from the World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles, where it was announced NANCY KRESS will be the next Huzzah! I campaigned Read more of this blog post »
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Quotes by David Brin (?)

“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”
― David Brin

tags: accountability, judgement, judging, privacy

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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
― David Brin

tags: life, power

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“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
― David Brin, Brightness Reef

tags: science

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Polls

Time to pick our next group challenge. Please cast your vote for series you would like us to read starting April.

The Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie - 1,072pg

13 votes, 31.0%

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson - 1,957pg

11 votes, 26.2%

Sprawl by William Gibson - 877pg

10 votes, 23.8%

The Uplift Saga by David Brin 1,757pg

5 votes, 11.9%

The Complete Lyonesse by Jack Vance - 1,040pg

3 votes, 7.1%

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“Change is the very fabric of our time.”
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message 6: by Andy

May 02, 2017 11:07PM

David: Someone was looking for the "Out of Time" series on "What's the Name of That Book"

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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message 5: by Jayson

Sep 27, 2016 07:18PM

I noticed you had a blurb for Hanson's Age of Em. Did you write anything more extensive about the work? I'd be interested in reading it, if so.

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message 4: by Rotuma

Dec 31, 2014 04:36AM

Thank you for accepting my friend request ... I am honoured.

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message 3: by Eric

Sep 05, 2012 05:10PM

Thank you for becoming my Goodreads friend.
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message 2: by Curtiss (last edited Aug 02, 2012 06:30AM)

Aug 02, 2012 06:29AM

I enjoyed your quote from "Glory Season" about the 'practical things' you'd to ask the local wizard/sorceror to come up with.

It reminded me of the advanced technological contributions to 13th century Poland provided by an inadvertent time traveller in "The Cross-Time Engineer" by Leo A. Frankowski (also "A Connecticutt Yankee at King Arthur's Court" for that matter).

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message 1: by Curtiss

Aug 02, 2012 06:20AM

Have you tried ny Jack McDevitt - his stories are a bit like a cross between Clive Cussler and Jack Vance, with the emphasis on Vance.

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