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David Brin

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David Brin is a scientist, speaker, and world-known author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Existence, his latest novel, offers an unusual scenario for first contact. His ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. A movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on his post-apocalyptic novel, The Postman. Startide Rising won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. The Uplift War also won the Hugo Award.

His non-fiction book -- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? -- deals ...more

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The top thing AI can do for us is the top thing that sane AI will want!

First a tech blip from the future/past -- and you'll see why it's important. In my first novel Sundiver I portrayed an effective human lie detector, that seemed plausible with 1980s technology, yet has never actually been built or tried. More advanced versions are now totally plausible, using large language models (LLMs).

Of course, it's scary. Nothing could be more lethal in the hands of tyrants.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 274,078 ratings · 13,307 reviews · 329 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Postman 3.89 avg rating — 38,173 ratings — published 1985 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 33,842 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3) 4.07 avg rating — 27,666 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sundiver (The Uplift Saga, #1) 3.69 avg rating — 28,106 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foundation's Triumph (Second Foundation Trilogy, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,738 ratings — published 1999 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brightness Reef (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 11,160 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinity's Shore (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 9,077 ratings — published 1996 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earth 3.93 avg rating — 8,480 ratings — published 1990 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heaven's Reach (Uplift Storm Trilogy, #3) by David Brin (Goodreads Author), Jim Burns (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 7,454 ratings — published 1998 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Existence 3.78 avg rating — 7,314 ratings — published 2012 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Uplift Saga (6 books)
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Jim Burns (Illustrator)

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Earth (1 book)
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“When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.”
― David Brin

tags: accountability, judgement, judging, privacy

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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
― David Brin

tags: life, power

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“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
― David Brin, Brightness Reef

tags: science

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August 2023 - Extremely Long Books
This month we will only read one book of 700+ pages. Choose from this list of non-series books.

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

17 votes, 23.3%

The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson

14 votes, 19.2%

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

11 votes, 15.1%

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany

10 votes, 13.7%

Ilium by Dan Simmons

5 votes, 6.8%

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher

4 votes, 5.5%

Passage by Connie Willis

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Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright

3 votes, 4.1%

Glory Season by David Brin

1 vote, 1.4%

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“Change is the very fabric of our time.”
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message 6: by Andy

May 02, 2017 01:07PM

David: Someone was looking for the "Out of Time" series on "What's the Name of That Book"

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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message 5: by Jayson

Sep 27, 2016 09:18AM

I noticed you had a blurb for Hanson's Age of Em. Did you write anything more extensive about the work? I'd be interested in reading it, if so.

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message 4: by Rotuma

Dec 30, 2014 06:36PM

Thank you for accepting my friend request ... I am honoured.

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message 3: by Eric

Sep 05, 2012 07:10AM

Thank you for becoming my Goodreads friend.
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message 2: by Curtiss (last edited Aug 01, 2012 08:30PM)

Aug 01, 2012 08:29PM

I enjoyed your quote from "Glory Season" about the 'practical things' you'd to ask the local wizard/sorceror to come up with.

It reminded me of the advanced technological contributions to 13th century Poland provided by an inadvertent time traveller in "The Cross-Time Engineer" by Leo A. Frankowski (also "A Connecticutt Yankee at King Arthur's Court" for that matter).

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message 1: by Curtiss

Aug 01, 2012 08:20PM

Have you tried ny Jack McDevitt - his stories are a bit like a cross between Clive Cussler and Jack Vance, with the emphasis on Vance.

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