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  1. Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, Book 1) by David Brin, 1985-01-01
  2. Earth by David Brin, 1991-05-01
  3. Heaven's Reach (The Second Uplift Trilogy #3) by David Brin, 1999-05-11
  4. Infinity's Shore (The Uplift Trilogy, Book 2) by David Brin, 1997-11-03
  5. Brightness Reef (The Uplift Trilogy, Book 1) by David Brin, 1996-10-01
  6. Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe by David Brin, Kevin Lenagh, 2002-06-25
  7. Kiln People (The Kiln Books) by David Brin, 2002-01-12
  8. The Postman (Bantam Classics) by David Brin, 1997-11-03
  9. Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Book 2) by David Brin, 1984-03-01
  10. River of Time by David Brin, 2001-08-09
  11. Glory Season by David Brin, 1994-05-01
  12. The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, Book 3) by David Brin, 1987-06-01
  13. Before They Were Giants: First Works from Science Fiction Greats (Planet Stories) by Piers Anthony, Greg Bear, et all 2010-08-24
  14. Otherness by David Brin, 1994-08-01

1. David Brin - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (October 6, 1950) is an American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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2. David Brin Predicts The Future | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine
Scifi author knew all about the Web, global warming, and more. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news
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Introducing the Absolute Scale of Food Healthfulness
A ban of junk-food advertising relies on a new measure of nutrition.
The Moral of the Zetia Story
LDL is only called bad cholesterol because we call it that.
It's 2008. Here's Your Jet Pack.
A few brave souls have accomplished individual, powered flight.
And Here's Why You Have an Appendix:
When you're sick, it re-boots your gut with good bacteria.
Tiny Robot Walks Using Rat Heart Muscle
Similar bots may one day clear clots in blood vessels.
Discovery Channel 2020: Living-Cell TV
"Hyperlenses" could let us watch living cells in real time.
Were the First Americans Wiped Out By an Asteroid?

3. David Brin - Wikiquote
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is a wellknown American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards as well as
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Jump to: navigation search Glen David Brin (born October 6 ) is a well-known American author of science fiction. He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards as well as the Interstella War Award. He lives in Southern California and has been both a NASA consultant and a physics professor.
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  • The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
    • "A Contrarian Perspective on Altruism: The Dangers of First Contact" , September 2002, p. 22 (accessed at SETIleague.org There were times when Robert actually envied his ancestors, who had lived in dark ignorance, before the 21st century, and seemed to have spent most of their time making up weird, ornate explanations of the world to fill the yawning gap of their ignorance. Back then, one could believe in anything at all. Simple, deliciously elegant explanations of human behavior. It apparently never mattered whether they were true or not, as long as they were incanted right. Party lines and wonderful conspiracy theories abounded. You could even believe in your own sainthood if you wanted. Nobody was there to show you, with clear experimental proof, that was no easy answer, no magic bullet, no philosopher's stone. Only simple, boring sanity. How narrow the Golden Age looked in retrospect.
      • The Uplift War , chapter 53 She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

4. The Templeton Gate - Authors - David Brin
David Brin is my favorite Science Fiction writer of this time (I would put in HUGE votes for Theodore Sturgeon for Best Ever ). I was introduced to Brin by
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Profiled by Eliza Dolots David Brin is my favorite Science Fiction writer of this time (I would put in HUGE votes for Theodore Sturgeon for "Best Ever"). I was introduced to Brin by a good friend about 10 years ago. Since then I have been an avid fan. I confess that the last few years my life has been largely devoted to caring for my young daughter, so I have had little time to devote to reading. From Brin's Official Webpage GLORY SEASON was the first Science Fiction novel brought into space. With this background, it would be natural to assume that his stories are full of scientific validation. That would be wrong. While the scientific theory behind his stories is always sound, his stories almost never become "proofs" of the possibility. He tells his story through the characters and events, letting the scientific “proof that it could happen” reside in postscripts and supplemental essays. I say "almost" because, when he worked with Gregory Benford in HEART OF THE COMET (1986), the science did tend to overwhelm the story some. Possibly the result of two scientists working together. SUNDIVER SUNDIVER STARTIDE RISING Brin took a break from his uplift saga to write two of his best novels: THE PRACTICE EFFECT (1984) and THE POSTMAN (1985). Both are stories of lone men thrown into unfamiliar circumstances trying to do what is right for the most people. Simple plot concept. That is probably why it works so well. In

5. Helge's Notebook - Reviews - Authors - David Brin
David Brin s stories are full of political messages without being boring diatribes.
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    Brin's stories are highly political - not in the sense as for instance Greg Bear's stories, which feature politics as a strong method of plot advancement, but in the sense that David Brin has a definite message to deliver, and he delivers it with resounding confidence. These are not polemic tracts, and he never seems to slip into a didactic mode. The stories are entertaining front to back. If you want an idea of what that message is without reading any fiction, you might try Brin's entry into non-fiction, with The Transparent Society . This is a well written explanation of why Brin thinks that looking for security behind encryption algorithms is not a solution. I've written a book review of that book.

6. David Brin: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati
Science fiction author and futurist David Brin recently contacted me about what he feels was my very poor interpretation of his stance on the METI issue.
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  • If The Metaverse Goes Wrong…..
    http://www.ugotrade.com/ 2007/ 12/ 03/ if-the-metaverse-goes-wrong/ If the metaverse goes wrong it’s going to be a “dark world” with only a few points of light, Jamais Cascio said in his talk to Stanford University’s Metaverse Meetup that was also streamed in Second Life. 53 days ago by ugonet in UgoTrade Authority: 166
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    4 books read or abandoned No themes for the month, unless you want to call “depressing books that sap my will to live” a theme. I did think it was amusing how I read a book called The Postman and one called Mailman back to back. See how clever I am. Books bought/mooched: None, yet again; the “to read” pile is still much too tall.
  • 7. LinkedIn: David Brin
    David Brin s professional profile on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a networking tool that helps users like David Brin discover inside connections to recommended job
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    David Brin
    Owner, Holocenechat.com Greater San Diego Area
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    Scientist/author David Brin’s best-selling novels, including Earth and The Postman (filmed in 1998), are translated into more than 20 languages.
    His non fiction book The Transparent Society - won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association, establishing him as a widely quoted expert on secrecy, privacy, accountability and related issues.
    David Brin is widely consulted by governments and industry about matters of onrushing technological and social change and has spoken before hundreds of audiences. He appears frequently on television shows like Nova and "The Architechs" to illuminate aspects of the future.
    For more information see http://www.davidbrin.com

    8. An Interview With David Brin
    David Brin is an author, scientist and public speaker. Several of his novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, and have won multiple Hugo,
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    by Lynne Jamneck
    David Brin is an author, scientist and public speaker. Several of his novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, and have won multiple Hugo, Nebula as well as other awards. His environmental thriller, Earth , foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and the World Wide Web. His first non-fiction book, The Transparent Society, deals with modern-day concerns about privacy, responsibility and secrecy in the world of the coming century. His fifteen novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. Was SF always your chosen genre, or did you initially think you would be writing something completely different?
    Though science fiction offers me the freedom I like, I have often told my students that their first work of fiction should be a murder mystery. (It can be an SF mystery, like my first novel, Sundiver.)

    9. David Brin's Official Web Site
    david brin s official web site, where I ve posted samples of my novels, short stories and nonfiction articles, and news about my current and future
    http://www.davidbrin.com/

    Uplift novels

    other SF novels

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    Life After Life After People
    Serving as a futurist pundit, I opened and closed the History Channel show " Life After People " which became the network's best-watched telecast ever , with 5.4 million viewers. Somewhat better than my earlier show for the HC " The ArchiTechs Five geniuses are challenged : Design better safety/rescue systems for skyscrapers... in 48 hours!") Those more interested a hurried roller-coaster of ideas about "saving the Enlightenment" might visit my speech at the " Beyond Belief : Enlightenment 2.0" conference. For other appearances on Nova and Discovery Channel shows, see Speaking and Podcasts
    Cometary Research
    For many years now, every science show from Nova to UNIVERSE that has done an episode about comets has portrayed the cometary nucleus as a dark, spinning mass, covered with dust, except for a geyser-like fountain or two, bursting steam through the mantle layer and spewing particles into space. Would it shock anybody out there to learn that this was my original theory?

    10. David Brin's Official Web Site: "The Transparent Society" (Chapter One)
    The introduction to david brin s book The Transparent Society is reprinted here.
    http://www.davidbrin.com/tschp1.html

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    The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
    by David Brin, Ph.D.
    The Table of Contents and reviews, blurbs and commentary are also available on this site. This is a tale of two cities. Cities of the near future, say ten or twenty years from now. Barring something unforeseen, you are apt to live in one of these two places. Your only choice may be which At first sight, this pair of municipalities look pretty much alike. Both contain dazzling technological marvels, especially in the realm of electronic media. Both suffer familiar urban quandaries of frustration and decay. If some progress is being made at solving human problems, it is happening gradually. Perhaps some kids seem better educated. The air may be marginally cleaner. People still worry about over-population, the environment, and the next international crisis. None of these features are of interest to us right now, for we have noticed something about both of these 21st century cities that is radically different. A trait that marks them distinct from any metropolis of the late nineteen-nineties.

    11. Contrary Brin
    An occasional online journal to handle discussions generated by The david brin Site (http//www.davidbrin.com/ ) Courteous argument is welcome.
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    Contrary Brin
    An occasional online journal to handle discussions generated by "The David Brin Site" (http://www.davidbrin.com/ ) Courteous argument is welcome...
    Friday, January 25, 2008
    Ostriches, Huckabee, Colin Powell... and the "new Republican flip"
    Serving once more as a talkinghead futurist pundit, I opened and closed the recent History Channel show "Life After People" - which became the network's best-watched telecast ever, with 5.4 million viewers. Somewhat better than my earlier show for HC - “the ArchiTechs.”
    For a listing of other appearances, for example on Nova and Discovery Channel shows, and click over to Speaking or Podcasts.
    Oh. Re-runs! I hear they’ll be running "Life After People" again Feb 2nd, 5 7pm on the History Channel.
    And now, back onto the topic of the year...
    ... which is hunting (and awakening) "ostriches...
    ... plus something about Huckabee and Powell...
    ... before making a prediction about what will surely be the next (surprising!) Republican trial balloon.

    12. The Works Of David Brin
    Site dedicated to the author s works. Biography, bibliography, the Uplift universe, artwork, two humourous short stories contributed by brin, and brin s
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    Novel Year Awards Sundiver Startide Rising The Practice Effect The Postman
    River of Time (Anthology) Heart of the Comet
    (w/ Gregory Benford) The Uplift War
    Nebula Nominee Earth Hugo Nominee Glory Season Hugo Nominee Otherness (Anthology) Locus Award Brightness Reef Uplift Trilogy 1 - Hugo Nominee Infinity's Shore Uplift Trilogy 2 Transparent Society Non-Fiction Heaven's Reach Uplift Trilogy 3 Foundation's Triumph Second Foundation Trilogy III Kiln People Biographical Information
    Brin has lectured worldwide on topics as diverse as Ecology, Information Technology, Twenty-first Century extrapolation, Spaceflight, and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Life. He serves on government and non-government advisory committees dealing with the future "information age". David Brin's second novel, Startide Rising , won the prestigious Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards in 1983. A Hugo-winning short story, "The Crystal Spheres," is featured in his collection, The River of Time . A later novel, The Postman , received the John W. Campbell Award and the Locus Award, and was a Nebula and Hugo finalist.

    13. David Brin
    brin.gif, david brin (1950 ) Info on brin-L. Reviews. Reviews page at The Linköping SF F Archive (.se); Review of Earth A short review of Earth (.au)
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    David Brin Streaker had been poking through a small gravitational tide pool, fifty thousand parsecs off the galactic plane, when she found the Fleet. Toshio sighed at the unfairness of it. One hundred and fifty dolphins, seven humans, and a chimpanzee; how could we have known what we found? Why did we have to find it? Fifty thousand ships, each the size of a moon. That's what they found. The dolphins had been thrilled by their discovery the biggest Derelict Fleet ever encountered, apparently incredibly ancient. Captain Creideiki had psicast to Earth for instructions. Dammit! Why did he call Earth? Couldn't the report have waited until we'd gone home? Why let the whole eavesdropping galaxy know you'd found a Sargasso of ancient hulks in the middle of nowhere? The Terragens Council had answered in code. "Go into hiding. Await orders. Do not reply." Creideiki obeyed, of course. But not before half the patron-lines in the galaxy had sent out their warships to find Streaker from Startide Rising
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    14. David Brin
    A bibliography of david brin s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
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    (David Glen Brin) Search Authors Search Books About David Brin David Brin is the acclaimed Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of ten novels and two collections of short stories.His best known work, the UPLIFT series, was described in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION " as compulsive reading as anything in the genre". He has a doctorate in astrophysics, has been a consultant to NASA and a graduate-level physics professor, and lives in California. Series Uplift Sundiver Startide Rising Earthclan (omnibus) The Uplift War Brightness Reef Infinity's Shore Heaven's Reach Kil'n Kil'n People Kil'n Time Colony High Sky Horizon Novels The Practice Effect The Postman The Heart of the Comet (with Gregory Benford Earth Glory Season Collections The River of Time Otherness Tomorrow Happens Chapbooks The Other Culture War: Beleaguered Professionals vs. Disempowered Citizens

    15. Salon Arts & Entertainment | "Star Wars" Despots Vs. "Star Trek" Populists
    Why is George Lucas peddling an elitist, antidemocratic agenda under the guise of escapist fun? By SF author david brin. Salon
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    A science-fiction author scours the new "Star Wars" film for signs of intelligent life.
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    Hell hath no house band like Slayer; Ozzy has no mojo.
    By Gavin McNett Music Review Singer/songwriter Danielle Howle and the bearable lightness of being alone. By Wendy Mitchell Column How Sarah got her groove back By Joyce Millman Music Geri-rigged The artist formerly known as Ginger Spice slips out of the Union Jack drag-queen glad rags with her debut solo effort, "Schizophonic." By Charles Taylor "Star Wars" despots vs.       "Star Trek" populists Why is George Lucas peddling an elitist, anti-democratic agenda under the guise of escapist fun? By David Brin June 15, 1999 "But there's probably no better form of government than a good despot." George Lucas (New York Times interview, March 1999) Well, I boycotted "Episode I: The Phantom Menace" for an entire week. Why? What's to boycott? Isn't "Star Wars" good old fashioned sci-fi? Harmless fun? Some people call it "eye candy" a chance to drop back into childhood and punt your adult cares away for two hours, dwelling in a lavish universe where good and evil are vividly drawn, without all the inconvenient counterpoint distinctions that clutter daily life. Got a problem? Cleave it with a light saber! Wouldn't you love just once in your life to dive a fast little ship into your worst enemy's stronghold and set off a chain reaction, blowing up the whole megillah from within its rotten core while you streak away to safety at the speed of light? (It's such a nifty notion that it happens in three out of four "Star Wars" flicks.)

    16. David Brin On The Future - Forbes.com
    david brin is a scientist and author whose novels include Earth, The Postman and Startide Rising. brin s nonfiction book, The Transparent Society Will
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    David Brin On The Future
    Interviewed by Anup Kaphle 10.15.07, 6:00 PM ET
    What's one thing you were sure would happen, but didn't? My biggest surprise was to see America swept by a major, societywide case of Alvin Toffler's future shock when that "2" arrived in the millennium column. I didn't see it at first, because, back at the turn of the century, it seemed that folks were taking the milestone in stride. And yet, masked beneath layers of surface bravado, people appear to have developed a jittery alienation toward concepts like "the future," or the inevitability of change. One casualty: the assertive, pragmatic approach to negotiation and human-wrought progress that used to be mother's milk to this civilization. Just to be clear and evenhanded, let me say that this trauma seems to have struck all ends of the so-called "political spectrum," from anti-science on the right to anti-engineering on the left. In fact, it bears striking similarities to past crises of confidence, with earlier surges of anti-future romanticism. Fortunately, I also see early signs of recovery. This very article on Forbes.com

    17. THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2008 — Page 2
    david brin Physicist; Technical Consultant; Science Fiction Writer; Author, The Transparent Society. Sometimes you are glad to discover you were wrong.
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    Research Associate, Psychology, Harvard University; Author, The Alex Studies
    The Fallacy of Hypothesis Testing I've begun to rethink the way we teach students to engage in scientific research. I was trained, as a chemist, to use the classic scientific method: Devise a testable hypothesis, and then design an experiment to see if the hypothesis is correct or not. And I was told that this method is equally valid for the social sciences. I've changed my mind that this is the best way to do science. I have three reasons for this change of mind. Second, I've learned that truly interesting questions really often can't be reduced to a simple testable hypothesis, at least not without being somewhat absurd. "Can a parrot label objects?" may be a testable hypothesis, but actually isn't very interesting…what is interrelated questions that arise and expand almost indefinitely.

    18. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: David Brin
    Other brin links. The Good and the Bad Outlines of Tomorrow Earth (c) 1990 by david brin June 1990, Bantam Spectra hardcover June 1991,
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    David Brin
    Other Brin links:
    The Good and the Bad: Outlines of Tomorrow
    The New Meme
    Bio:
    Voted favorite writer of the 1980's by the readers of Locus . Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and J.W.Campbell awards. Holds a Doctorate in Astrophysics, has worked as a consultant to NASA and taught graduate level physics and writing.
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    Brightness Reef
    First book of the Second Uplift Trilogy
    November 1996, Bantam Books Mass Market paperback Reissu Edition ISBN:0-553-57330-6 Amazon.com
    Earth
    (c) 1990 by David Brin
    June 1990, Bantam Spectra hardcover
    June 1991, Bantam Spectra paperback
    September 1994, Bantam Spectra reissue edition. ISBN:0-553-29024-X. Library of Congress CCN:90-4 Cover by Bruce Jensen. Amazon.com
    A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core, threatening to destroy the entire planet within two years. Some scientists are frantically searching for ways to prevent the disater. But others argue that the only way to save the Earth is to let it's human inhabitants become extinct: to let the evolutionary clock rewind and start all over again.
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    Foundation's Triumph
    May 2000, Harper Mass Market Paperback, ISBN:0-061-05639-1

    19. LF Special Report: Shouting At The Cosmos
    By Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member david brin, Ph.D. .. Organized by david brin. UPDATE As of late October 2006, attempts (such as
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    LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION SPECIAL REPORT
    SHOUTING AT THE COSMOS
    ...Or How SETI has Taken a Worrisome Turn Into Dangerous Territory
    By Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member David Brin , Ph.D.
    Article written September 2006. Print report!
    1. EMERGING FROM RIDICULE TO POPULARITY
    Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Certainly, the ardent sense of wonder that Carl Sagan poured into both his nonfiction television series Cosmos and the novel film Contact , conveyed something both thrilling and slightly off-angle from conventional science. This unconventionality caused some problems for early researchers, putting their budgets under constant threat of being " proxmired " or unfairly derided... a danger that gradually faded as public support built, over time. Support that arose in part (ironically, as we'll see) because of steady exposure that the ideas were given through high-end science fiction. Let there be no mistake. I and the other recent dissenters have always supported this baseline SETI endeavor. Indeed, I share with the leaders of the SETI Institute a firm belief that the scientific listening program is among the most important and worthwhile quests that a vigorous and far-looking civilization could undertake.

    20. David Brin Quotes - The Quotations Page
    david brin (1950 ) US engineer and science fiction author more author details david brin; It is said that power corrupts, but actually it s more true
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