david brin

Ultimately, Existence (2012) is about communication. This book really captured my attention when Sato discusses the tower of babel with Tor. Maybe most people conjecture that it was an act of fury, I haven’t really thought about it. Sato, meanwhile, considers the tower to delay progress- by...

I’m just about to finish Sundiver and I’m staggered and annoyed at how poor it is. The ideas are compelling enough and the pace is good, but the characters are ridiculous and it reads like a first draft. Contradictory sequences of sentences, atrocious grammar, random upper casing, MISSING full...

I recently came across this article again and was wondering what Chrons thought of it. EDIT: Wanted to add a link the the follow up article.

Half a century in the future, the human race has survived several brushes with extinction. True AI has been created but - so far - has been benign and helpful. A terrible nuclear incident has taken place, but humanity has endured. As each bullet is dodged, so mankind's chances of survival...

Back in the 80s? I read an SFF book where the people created items by using them for their intended purpose. For example, if you sat on a stump often enough, it would become a chair. The more often it was used, the better made it became. Anyone have any idea what this book was? Thanks in...

Book 1: Sundiver

Please help! I'm trying to find a book that a read only a few years ago. No memory of title or author, unfortunately. What I do remember is that the entire book takes place on a single planet with five or six distinct alien species. They referred to themselves as the Five (or Six) Races, I...

Hi, I'm trying to remember a book/author in which the protagonist 'bakes' several clones of himself that only last a day, one that does the chores, one that does organisational work etc, but then gets kidnapped, and the clones attempt to rescue him. Each of the clones is a 'specialist' in a...

After years of not reading nearly as much as I'd like to, I've started enjoying books again. My main interests are science fiction and fantasy, and I'm trying desperately to find the name or the author of a book I read years ago and would love to reread. It involved a planet that orbited super...

Hi, I'm searching for a book which I read in german (I think) but is most definitely from a UK/US author. The story takes action on a planet which is (possibly) post-nuclear, forested and the main actor maintains/builds a retainment dam (?) with his father (?). There's also a girl who reads...

This story was first published over twenty years ago, but it's taken me this long to catch up with it. It is set something like half a millennium into the future, in Brin's 'Uplift' universe (the setting for a total of six novels so far). The Five Galaxies of civilisation are swarming with...

Back in the 1980s, before other priorities distracted me from reading much SFF for a decade or two, I read and enjoyed a few books by David Brin, The Practice Effect being a particular favourite. So when Kil'n People cropped up in the Modern SF reading list, I acquired a copy with some...

Anyone read him? Looks quite interesting...

These are probably both long shots... but any help would be very appreciated. Firstis a book I lost at summer camp several years ago, I bought it at a used book store and never could remember the name. It was about a black hole that fell into the center of the world, and had to somehow be...

This saga consists of 6 books: Sundiver Startide Rising The Uplift War and the trilogy: Brightness Reef Infinity's Shore Heaven's Reach. Who's read any of these books and what did you think about them?Why do you like/dislike this series?

Infinity's Shore Second book of the second Uplift Trilogy. The blurb: Two thousand years is a very long time to hold a grudge! A lot of this is probably my fault for entering the series halfway through. But bearing in mind current discussions in General about where modern Sci/Fi is going...

Well i read the 1st book from the 2nd trilogy. I have to say it wastn't nearly as good as the books from the first trilogy and it took me a bit of effort to get through it and then to have the complete non-ending at the end made me not that happy. Still, i am looking forward to reading the next...

The following are the 3 books (in order) of the first Uplift triology. Sundiver Buy at Amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857233700/ascificomscience Buy at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553269828/ascificomscien07 Startide Rising Buy at...

Do you think that in the in the uplift books that we were actually uplifted by a sentient species like all other races in the known universe or we just evolved. Which has only happned to the very first race. And does anyone think that if a psychological test thinks you are violent and you aren't...

Probably my favourite series, coming just behind the Rama books by Arthur C Clarke and just in front on Ringworld oh and clsose to Foundation. Anyway, which did you prefere. To me they were all great, just such a clever idea. Love Earth's position in the whole thing, the dolphins in the last...