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• Legal Name: Brin, Glen David
• Birthplace: Glendale, California, USA
• Birthdate: 6 October 1950
• Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brin
• IMDB Entry: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109432/
• Webpage: http://www.davidbrin.com/
• Webpage: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/brin_david
• Used These Alternate Names: David Brin, Ph.D.
• Interviews: David Brin: Dialogs with the Future , David Brin: Won't Cop the Rap , A Synthetic Art: David Brin Interviewed , The Last Empire , David Brin: After The Postman , David Brin: Earth and Easter Island , David Brin , David Brin , Ein Gespräch mit David Brin , Author Spotlight: David Brin , An Interview with David Brin , Author Spotlight: David Brin , Interview: David Brin , David Brin
• ISFDB Record Number: 8
• Biography: Bio:David Brin
• Bibliographic Comments: Author:David Brin
• Author Tags: space opera (9) , hugo award for best novel finalist (7) , read (4) , uplift (3) , locus award for best sf novel (3) , nebula award for best novel finalist (3) , hugo and nebula award for best novel finalist (3) , to read 1986 (3) , Hugo Award Winner (2) , 2-award-winner (2) , hugo award for best novel winner (2) , read by dgeiser13 (2) , science fiction (2) , to read 1995 (1) , to read 1987 (1) , galactic culture (1) , to read 1980 (1) , aquatic (1) , Nebula Award Winner (1) , to read 1983 (1) , 3-award-winner (1) , dolphin (1) , nebula award for best novel winner (1) , hugo and nebula award for best novel winner (1) , post apocalypse (1) , post-apocalyptic (1) , john w campbell award winner (1) , to read 1993 (1) , nanotechnology (1) , overpopulation (1) , to read 1990 (1) , to read 1996 (1) , todo (1) , to read 1984 (1) , to read 1998 (1) , to read 2002 (1) , war with machines (1) , to read 1982 (1) , best of year anthology (1) , young-adult sf (1) , honorable mention dozois years best (1)

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Awards

Alphabetical

Chronological

Fiction Series

• Existence
  • Lungfish (1986) [SF]
  • The Smartest Mob . . . (2008) [SF]
  • Shoresteading (2010) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Magazine Appearances:
    • Shoresteading (Part 1 of 2) (2008)
    • Shoresteading (Part 2 of 2) (2008)
  • Existence (2012)
  • The Shelter of Tradition (An excerpt from the novel Existence) (2012) [SF]
  • Latecomers (2012) [SF]

• Uplift Universe
  • Life in the Extreme (1998) [SF] also appeared as:
    • Variant Title: Aficionado (2003)
  • Ickies (1999) [SF]
  • Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe (2002) [NF] with Kevin Lenagh
  • Ickies in Mirrorshades (2004) [SF]
  • Gorilla My Dreams (2009) [SF]
  • 1 Uplift
    • 1 Sundiver (1980)
    • 2 Startide Rising (1983)
    • 3 The Uplift War (1987)
    • The Tides of Kithrup (1981) [SF]
    • Earthclan (1987) [O/2,3]
    • Temptation (1999) [SF]
    • Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy (2012) [O/1,2,3]
  • 2 New Uplift Trilogy
    • 1 Brightness Reef (1995)
    • 2 Infinity's Shore (1996)
    • 3 Heaven's Reach (1998)
    • Infinity's Shore (Excerpt) (1996) [SF]
    • Heaven's Reach (excerpt) (1997) [SF]

• Foundation Universe
  • Second Foundation Trilogy
    • 3 Foundation's Triumph (1999)
    • Foundation's Triumph (Excerpt) (1999) [SF]

• The Postman
  • The Postman (1982) [SF]
  • Cyclops (1984) [SF]
  • The Postman (1985)

Novels

• The Practice Effect (1984)
• Heart of the Comet (1986) with Gregory Benford
• Earth (1990)
• Glory Season (1993)
• Kiln People (2002) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Kil'n People (2002)

Collections

• The River of Time (1986)
• Otherness (1994)
• Tomorrow Happens (2003)

Omnibus

• Exiles: The Uplift Storm Trilogy (2013) [O]

Anthologies

• Project Solar Sail (1990) with Arthur C. Clarke

Chapterbooks

• Dr. Pak's Preschool (1989)
• Piecework (1991)
• Sky Horizon (2007)
• Reality Check (2011)
• The Giving Plague (2012)

Nonfiction Series

• King Kong
  • Introduction (King Kong Is Back!: An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape) (2005) [ES]
  • King Kong Is Back!: An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape (2005) with Leah Wilson

• Star Wars Universe
  • Star Wars: Nonfiction
    • Star Wars on Trial (2006) with Matthew Stover [only as by David Brin and Matthew Woodring Stover ]

Nonfiction

• Evolution of Polarized Light in an Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Medium (MS Thesis) (1977)
• Evolution of Cometary Nuclei as Influenced by a Dust Component (PhD Thesis) (1981)
• Extraterrestrial Civilization (1989) with Thomas B. H. Kuiper
• The Transparent Society (1998)
• Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays (2008)

Short Fiction Series

• War of the Worlds
  • Paris Conquers All (1996) with Gregory Benford

• The Ancient Ones
  • The Ancient Ones, Episode 1 (2006)
  • The Ancient Ones, Episode 2 (2006)
  • The Ancient Ones, Episode 3 (2006)
  • The Ancient Ones, Episode 4 (2007)
  • The Ancient Ones, Episode Five (2008)

• Colony High
  • 1 Sky Horizon (2007)

Shortfiction

• Just a Hint (1981)
• The Loom of Thessaly (1981)
• Co-existence (1982) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: The River of Time (1981)
• Tank-Farm Dynamo (1983) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Tank Farm Dynamo (1983)
  • Variant Title: Tank Farm (2000)
• The Crystal Spheres (1984)
• The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf (1984)
• The Warm Space (1985)
• Toujours Voir (1986)
• Senses Three and Six (1986)
• Thor Meets Captain America (1986)
• A Stage of Memory (1986) with Daniel Brin
• Bubbles (1987)
• The Giving Plague (1988)
• Sshhh . . . (1988) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Shhhh (1989)
• Dr. Pak's Preschool (1989)
• Privacy (1989)
• Ambiguity (1989)
• Myth Number 21 (1990) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Elvis (1990)
• Earth (excerpt) (1990)
• Piecework (1990)
• The Diplomacy Guild (1990)
• Peacekeeper (1990)
• Ice Pilot (1990)
• The Secret of Life (1990)
• What Continues, What Fails . . . (1991) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: What Continues . . . And What Fails . . . (1991)
• Genji (1992) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: Bonding to Genji (1992)
• Detritus Affected (1993)
• NatuLife (R) (1994)
• Those Eyes (1994)
• The Other Side of the Hill (1994)
• Fortitude (1996) [also as by David Brin, Ph.D. ]
• An Ever-Reddening Glow (1996)
• Stones of Significance (1998)
• Civilization (1998)
• Civilization [Denouement] (1998)
• Reality Check (2000)
• A Professor at Harvard (2003)
• News from 2025 (2003)
• Sky Light (2004)
• Mars Opposition (2005)
• Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon's Crystal Forests (2006)
• I Could've Done Better (2007) with Gregory Benford
• The Logs [forthcoming: Aug 2013]

Essay Series

• Science Fact (Analog)
  • The Deadly Thing at 2.4 Kilo-Parsecs (1984)
  • Just How Dangerous is the Galaxy? (1985)

• Editorial (Analog)
  • The Dogma of Otherness (1986)

• Science (Science Fiction Age)
  • Forget SF's magical warp drives. Can today's science give us the stars for real? (1995) with Geoffrey A. Landis and Robert L. Forward and Jonathan V. Post
  • Science (Science Fiction Age, January 2000) (2000)

• Essay (Science Fiction Age)
  • Only Science Fiction can solve the perplexing problem of gun control. (1994)

• The Profession of Science Fiction
  • 35 A Shaman's View (1987)

Essays

• Letter (Amazing Stories, March 1983) (1983)
• Xenology: The New Science of Asking, "Who's Out There?" (1983) [only as by David Brin, Ph.D. ]
• Postscript (Startide Rising) (1983)
• Glossario e personaggi (Le maree di Kithrup) (1985)
• Running Out of Speculative Niches: A Crisis for Hard SF? (1986)
• Postscript and Acknowledgments (The Uplift War) (1986)
• SFRA Panel: Cyberpunk or Cyberjunk? Some Perspectives on Recent Trends in SF (1987) with John Shirley and Jack Williamson and Norman Spinrad and Gregory Benford
• Introduction (Stand on Zanzibar) (1987)
• Acknowledgments (Heart of the Comet) (1987) with Gregory Benford
• Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium:Starchilde Harold, Revisited: (1988)
• Letter (Locus #326) (1988)
• Glossario e personaggi (I signori di Garth) (1988)
• Alcune parole e glifi Tymbrimi (1988)
• Forum: Dateline 1999 (1989) with Edward Bryant and Robin Cook and Joyce Thompson and Pat Cadigan and Dan Simmons and Jack Williamson and Gregory Benford and Lewis Shiner and Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury
• Science and the Fantastic, Part I: The Time Flow of Wisdom (1989)
• Science and the Fantastic, Part II: The Image of the Magician (1989)
• Read This (NYRSF, August 1989) (1989)
• Response to "The New Generation Gap" (1989)
• L'universo di "Uplift". Saggio introduttivo dell'autore all'edizione italiana (Spedizione Sundiver) (1989)
• Science versus Magic (1990)
• The Commonwealth of Wonder (1990) also appeared as:
  • Variant Title: The New Meme (1990)
• Afterword (Earth) (1990)
• A Western Way of Thought (1990)
• Letter (Locus #352) (1990)
• Letter (Locus #353) (1990)
• Author's Preface (Earth) (1990)
• On Niven (1990)
• The Dangers of First Contact (1991)
• Nota dell'autore (Terra) (1991)
• Agent-Author (Pre-nuptial) Agreements (1992)
• Foreword (Abortion Stories) (1992)
• The Bubbling Universe (1992) with Thomas R. McDonough
• Waging War with Reality (1992)
• Afterword (Glory Season) (1993)
• Letter (Locus #392) (1993)
• Story Notes (for "Myth Number 21") (1994)
• Story Notes (for "Sshhh . . .") (1994)
• What to Say to a UFO (1994)
• Whose Millennium? (1994)
• Story Notes (for "Bubbles") (1994)
• Introduction (Lord of Light) (1994)
• First Word: Of Elves and Aliens (1994)
• Letter (Locus #417) (1995)
• John Brunner: Further Appreciations (1995)
• A World in Love with Change (1996)
• Introduction: A World in Love with Change (The Williamson Effect) (1996)
• Afterword: Retrospective (War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches) (1996) with Gregory Benford
• The Transparent Society (1996)
• On Niven (1998) with Gregory Benford and Wendy Ali and John Hertz and Steven Barnes and Frederik Pohl
• Afterword and Acknowledgments (Heaven's Reach) (1998)
• Afterword (Heaven's Reach) (1998)
• Acknowledgments (Heaven's Reach) (1998)
• Glossary of Species and Terms (Heaven's Reach) (1998)
• The Observatory: Ultimate Surveillance (1999)
• Afterword (Foundation's Triumph) (1999)
• Dialogo col futuro (1999)
• Vorwort (Die Foundation-Trilogie) (2000)
• Introduction (The Age of Wonders) (2000)
• Letter (Locus #479) (2000)
• The Robots and Foundation Universe: Issues and Hints Left for Us by Isaac Asimov (2001)
• Introduction (Beyond Thirty) (2001)
• Clifford Simak (2001)
• Poul Anderson (2001)
• A Special Introduction (Orbiter) (2002)
• Letter (Locus #500) (2002)
• Tribute to Robert Forward (2002)
• Introduction (The Sheep Look Up) (2003)
• Probing the Near Future (2003)
• Go Ahead, Stand on My Shoulders! (2003)
• The Future Keeps Surprising Us (2003)
• The Self-Preventing Prophecy (2003)
• Do We Really Want Immortality? (2003)
• Goodbye, Mir! (Sniff!) (2003)
• The Open-Ended Science Fiction Story (2003)
• Seeking a New Fulcrum (2003)
• The Robots and Foundation Universe (2003)
• We Hobbits Are a Merry Folk (2003)
• Foreword (The Night Orchid: Conan Doyle in Toulouse) (2004)
• To Read The Separation (2004)
• What Hess Sought (2004)
• Science Fiction Museum: Comments (2004)
• Foreword (Alas, Babylon) (2005)
• Doing a Slow Turn: The Poison of Cynicism (2006)
• Star Trek (2006)
• Jack Williamson (2007)
• Preface (Speculative Japan) (2007)
• Report on China (2007)
• Birthday Tribute to Arthur Clarke (2008)
• Thinking About SF (2009)
• Frederik Pohl—Architect of Worlds (2010)
• Letter (Locus #599) (2010)
• Afterword (Existence) (2012)
• Ray Bradbury (2012)

Reviews

• Godspeed (1993) by Charles Sheffield
• When Heaven Fell (1995) by William Barton

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