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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > David Brin
David Brin (1950-) is an an American science fiction author, best known for his Uplift series.
Together with Greg Bear and Gregory Benford, he wrote a trilogy of prequel novels to Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, David Brin being credited with the third book in the trilogy.
David Brin's novel *THE POSTMAN* was made in a movie starring Kevin Costner.
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By David Brin
Released: 2011-06-19 Kindle Edition (21 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Can a sci fi story alter the course of something ponderous, like the space program? Perhaps. "Tank Farm Dynamo" sure tried! What if we found the nerve, the spirit and daring to use every resource - including those that NASA simply threw away? An unabashedly old-fashioned hard SF story with science and technology as central, problem-solving players... plus a real twist. |
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By David Brin
Released: 2011-06-23 Kindle Edition (21 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: In a universe filled with habitable worlds why have we had no contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? David Brin's "The Crystal Spheres" offers a fantastic explanation for the Great Silence. Instead of being late-comers - might humanity have come upon the scene too early? This haunting tale was voted one of the "most beautiful of the eighties. Winner of the 1985 Hugo Award . |
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By David Brin
Released: 2011-06-16 Kindle Edition (29 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1987, Thor Meets Captain America offers an alternate history exploring a chilling scenario behind the Holocaust. In this parallel world, the Nazis narrowly avoid defeat in World War II when they are championed by the gods of the Norse Pantheon. At a dramatic turn, Loki joins the Allies and they prepare a last-ditch raid to blow up Valhalla. With an afterword by the author.
This novella was later expanded into an award winning graphic novel The Life Eaters, with artwork by Scott Hampton. |
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By David Brin
Spectra Released: 1985-01-01 Mass Market Paperback (352 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in history--a journey into the boiling inferno of the sun. |
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By David Brin
Tor Books Released: 2012-06-29 Hardcover (560 pages)
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By David Brin
Released: 2011-06-15 Kindle Edition (28 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Heard of the "singularity"? A time of transition that some perceive just ahead of us, when our skill and knowledge and immense computing power transform us into... well... godlike beings? An immense topic! But from a writer's perspective, it presents a problem. One can write stories leading up to the singularity, about all the problems. (Little things like rebellious AI.) But how do you write a tale set AFTER the singularity has happened?
Never one to refuse a challenge, that's exactly the topic of "Stones of Significance." |
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By David Brin
Spectra Released: 1987-06-01 Mass Market Paperback (672 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.  Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race.  But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?
As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth.  The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction.  At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies.  Sweeping, brilliantly crafted, inventive and dramatic, The Uplift War is an unforgettable story of adventure and wonder from one of today's science fiction greats. |
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By David Brin
Spectra Released: 1984-03-01 Mass Market Paperback (480 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.  Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race.  But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?
The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history.  Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars. |
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By David Brin
Released: 2011-06-18 Kindle Edition (48 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves? In this novella, David Brin merges classical mythology with impudent modern spirit in a science fiction legend that speculates upon the nature of reality.
With an afterword by the author. |
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By David Brin
Spectra Released: 1991-05-01 Mass Market Paperback (704 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings. |
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