David Brin
David Brin
Glen David Brinis an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His Campbell Award-winning novel The Postman was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 October 1950
CountryUnited States of America
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.
Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.
The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.
All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.
With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction.
Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.