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David Brin

Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo,[1] Locus,[2][3][4] Campbell[5] and Nebula Awards.[6]

Biography

Brin was born in Glendale, California in 1950. In 1973, he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astronomy. He followed this with a Master of Science in applied physics in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy in space science in 1981, both from the University of California, San Diego.

Brin is a 2010 fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies[7].

He currently lives in southern California with his children.

Bibliography

Fiction

Brin's body of science fiction, when taken as a whole, is normally categorized as hard science fiction.
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Author photo by Anne Hutchins

Other websites:

• Official website
• David Brin's blog, Contrary Brin
• Interview with David Brin at SFFWorld.com
• Interview with David Brin at Actusf.com
• David Brin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• David Brin entry at IMDB.COM.
• All of David Brin's audio interviews on the podcast The Future And You, in which he describes his expectations of the future
• Critical Resources :: David Brin
• Metareview, Kiln/Kil'n People
• Video of conversation between David Brin and James Pinkerton on Bloggingheads.tv
• David Brin and Sheldon Brown on "Third Millennium Problem Solving" at Google.
• Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia, encyclopedia of David Brin's Uplift Universe

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