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David Brin
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Brin at an Association for Computing Machinery conference in 2005
Born
Glen David Brin

(1950-10-06) October 6, 1950 (age 73)
Glendale, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education University of California, San Diego (PhD, MS)
California Institute of Technology (BS)
Occupation(s)Novelist, NASA consultant
Parent
Writing career
Genre Science fiction
Notable works Uplift series , The Postman , Earth , "The Transparent Society"
Scientific career
Fields
  • Astronomy
  • Exobiology
Institutions
Thesis Evolution of cometary nuclei as influenced by a dust component  (1981)
Doctoral advisor D. Asoka Mendis
Website davidbrin.com
Signature
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Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo, [1] [2] Locus, [3] [4] [5] Campbell [6] and Nebula Awards. [7] His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner. [8]

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Early life and education

Brin was born in Glendale, California, in 1950 to Selma and Herb Brin. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astronomy, in 1973. [9] [10] At the University of California, San Diego, he earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering (optics) in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in astronomy in 1981. [11] [12]

Career

From 1983 to 1986, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Space Institute, of the University of California, at the San Diego campus in La Jolla. [9] In 2010, Brin became a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. [13] [14] He helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD. He serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies. [ citation needed ]

As of 2013, he served on the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Science Fiction. [15]

Personal life

Brin has Polish Jewish ancestry, from the area around Konin. His grandfather was drafted into the Russian army and fought in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. [16]

As of 2022, Brin was living in San Diego County, California, with his wife and children. [17]

Works

Most of Brin's fiction is categorized as hard science fiction, in that they apply some degree of plausible scientific or technological change as important plot elements. About half of Brin's works are in his Uplift Universe. These have twice won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

Much of Brin's work outside the Uplift series focuses on technology's effects on human society, [18] a common theme of contemporary North American science fiction.

Bibliography

Fiction

The Uplift stories

The Uplift novels are:

  • Sundiver (1980), ISBN   0-553-13312-8
  • Startide Rising (1983), ISBN   0-553-23495-1. Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1984; [19] Nebula Award winner, 1983 [20]
  • The Uplift War (1987), ISBN   0-932096-44-1. Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1988; [21] Nebula Award nominee, 1987 [22]
  • The Uplift Trilogy (sometimes called the Uplift Storm trilogy):

Short stories:

  • "Aficionado" (1998) was first published as "Life in the Extreme" in Popular Science magazine, republished in the 2003 limited-edition collection Tomorrow Happens, and included in Brin's 2012 novel Existence. It is available on Brin's website. "Aficionado" takes place before the novels.
  • "Temptation" (1999) appeared in Robert Silverberg's anthology Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction and is set after the events of Infinity's Shore.

Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe (2002), ISBN   978-0553377965 is co-written by Brin and Kevin Lenagh

High Horizon

Other fiction

Stand-alone novels:

Graphic novels:

His short fiction has been collected in:

Other works by Brin include his addition to Asimov's Foundation Universe:

and his addition to Eric Flint's 1632-verse:

Brin designed the game Tribes, published in 1998 by Steve Jackson Games, [30] and wrote the storyline for the 2000 Dreamcast video game Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future .

Nonfiction

Ongoing:

Books:

Honors and awards

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References

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  2. ↑ Who's Getting Your Vote? Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine , October 29, 2008, Reason
  3. ↑ Startide Rising Archived 2009-03-30 at the Wayback Machine , Science Fiction & Fantasy Books, WWEnd
  4. ↑ The Postman Archived 2009-03-29 at the Wayback Machine , Science Fiction & Fantasy Books, WWEnd
  5. ↑ The Uplift War Archived 2009-03-29 at the Wayback Machine , Science Fiction & Fantasy Books, WWEnd
  6. ↑ 1986: 1st - The Postman, David Brin Archived 2011-10-25 at the Wayback Machine , 2003: 2nd - Kiln People, David Brin, The John W. Campbell Memorial Award
  7. ↑ "Nebula Award Winners: 1965 – 2011 Archived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine ". Section: 1983. Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. sfwa.org. "Best Novel: Startide Rising by David Brin". Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  8. ↑ Jones, Fiona M (March 20, 2021). "David Brin: The Postman". Mythaxis Review. Retrieved October 26, 2021.
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