David Brin

David Brin, Ph.D. is a well-known author of science fiction; he has won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He is also known as a leading commentator on modern technological trends; many of these writings are available in various places online.

Edit Notes

I couldn't find any quick-and-easy lists of Brin's online works, so that will be the main function of this page (since Wikipedia covers the rest quite nicely). The Index is by no means complete, but I will be adding to it as time permits. --Woozle 12:36, 5 November 2005 (EST)

Reference

• Wikipedia

Links

• official web site (alternate servers)
• Contrary Brin, David Brin's blog

Index

• An Open Letter to Alien Lurkers
• Society
  • Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competitiveness for Society's Benefit (2000-08)
  • The Real Culture War (2004)
• Book Reviews
  • Been Up So Long, It Looks Like Down to Me: a challenge to the "common notion that our wisdom has lagged behind technology"
• On the art of fiction:
  • small trove of advice for writers
  • The Enlightenment, Romanticism and Science Fiction: "Heirs of Ben Franklin and Those of Percy Shelley Vie for the Future"
  • Ideomancer interview
  • An Interview about Science Fiction and the Environment
  • ArtistInterviews interview
  • The Planetary Society interview
  • The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different
  • We Hobbits are a Merry Folk... "...an incautious and heretical re-appraisal of J.R.R. Tolkien"
  • On Star Wars:
    • "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists
    • Sidebar: What's wrong (and right) with The Phantom Menace
    • An Addendum...
    • "real" aliens... and bad sci fi: see #2 for more on Star Wars