DavidBrin

Science Fiction author best known for creating the UpliftUniverse?. Was originally trying to be a Physicist, but the sci-fi bug was stronger. Regarded as one of the best examples of "hard science fiction". He is best known for his Uplift trilogies, as well as Earth and other great books.

Official site: http://www.davidbrin.com/

His books include,

From the uplift universe:

• Sundiver
• StartideRising?
• TheUpliftWar?
• BrightnessReef?
• InfinitysShore?
• HeavensReach?

Other ScienceFiction:

• Earth?
• FoundationsTriumph? (from the Foundation series)
• GlorySeason?
• HeartOfTheComet?
• Otherness? - short stories
• ThePracticeEffect? - entropy works backward
• ThePostman? (made into a MotionPicture with Kevin Kostner)
• KilnPeople - disposable clones and memory transfers
• RiverOfTime?

Non-fiction:

• TheTransparentSociety ISBN 0738201448 (amazon.com, search): Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?

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His uplift universe is very similar to the early star trek universe of Enterprise?. We've made some contacts which are friendly, but there's plenty out there which is not. The GalacticLibrary? provides information on a scale incomprehensible (at least before the web), and we're introduced to a number of races which plan centuries and millenia in advance. --DerekWoolverton?

Some of Brin's books (the end of Earth, Heaven's Reach) get a little overwhelming with all the ideas he decided to work into the story before it ends. For instance, Heaven's Reach seems particularly tacked on. After spending the first two books on Jijo, the third book takes you to other dimensions, other galaxies, the event horizon of a BlackHole? AND a dyson sphere. The characters, which seemed to be lovingly crafted in the first two books, became tour guides to his intergalactic travelogue. Brin includes everything and the kitchen sink in order to tie things up. -- SeanO'Leary

My first analogy was always to LarryNiven's Known Space stories. But uplift, one of the core themes of the books, puts it into a new category - imagine the Puppeteers implicated not just in our evolution toward luck, but our very existence! As for Star Trek...prime directive, what prime directive?" --JohnAbbe

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