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David Brin

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Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author. He has won the Hugo,<ref>1984 Hugo Awards Template:Webarchive, Best Novel:Startide Rising by David Brin (Bantam, 1983), The Hugo Awards</ref><ref name=vote>Who's Getting Your Vote? Template:Webarchive, October 29, 2008, Reason</ref> Locus,<ref>Startide Rising Template:Webarchive, Science Fiction & Fantasy Books, WWEnd</ref><ref>The Postman Template:Webarchive, Science Fiction & Fantasy Books, WWEnd</ref><ref>The Uplift War Template:Webarchive, Science Fiction & Fantasy Books, WWEnd</ref> Campbell<ref>1986: 1st - The Postman, David Brin Template:Webarchive, 2003: 2nd - Kiln People, David Brin, The John W. Campbell Memorial Award</ref> and Nebula Awards.<ref>"Nebula Award Winners: 1965 – 2011 Template:Webarchive". Section: 1983. Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. sfwa.org. "Best Novel: Startide Rising by David Brin". Retrieved 2018-02-04.</ref> His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

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.<ref name="ContempAuthors">"David Brin". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2004. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2018-02-01. Available online via Encyclopedia.com Template:Webarchive.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>"David Brin." St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers. New York: St. James Press, 1996. Retrieved via Biography in Context database, 2018-02-01.</ref><ref name="thesis-brin-1981">Template:Cite thesis</ref>

CareerEdit

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.<ref name="ContempAuthors"/> In 2010, Brin became a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.Template:Citation needed

As of 2013, he served on the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Science Fiction.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

As of 2022, Brin was living in San Diego County, California, with his wife and children.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

WorksEdit

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BibliographyEdit

FictionEdit

UpliftEdit

Novels:

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Uplift trilogy, a.k.a. Uplift Storm:

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Short fiction:

  • "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.

Other works:

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

High HorizonEdit

Stand-alone novelsEdit

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ComicsEdit

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Short fiction collectionsEdit

Fiction set in worlds created by othersEdit

GamesEdit

Brin designed the game Tribes, published in 1998 by Steve Jackson Games,<ref name="designers">Template:Cite book</ref> and wrote the storyline for the 2000 Dreamcast video game Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future.

NonfictionEdit

Ongoing:

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Honors and awardsEdit

ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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