David Brin is a scientist, public speaker, and author. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. His fifteen novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. A 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and the World Wide Web. A 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was based on The Postman.
Brin advises groups dealing with subjects as diverse as national defense and homeland security, astronomy and space exploration, SETI and nanotechnology. His non-fiction book — The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? — won the 2000 Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.
As a "scientist/futurist" David appears frequently on TV... as a cast member and/or pundit, especially on the History Channel shows THE ARCHITECHS, THE UNIVERSE and, most recently, LIFE AFTER PEOPLE (the top rated HC show ever). He is also much in-demand as a public speaker, keynoting events for IBM, Google, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, all the way to consultations for think tanks and over a dozen defense agencies including the CIA.
Brin's papers in scientific journals cover an eclectic range of topics from astronautics, astronomy, and optics to alternative dispute resolution and the role of neoteny in human evolution. His Ph.D in Physics from the University of California at San Diego (the lab of nobelist Hannes Alfven) established today's accepted view of how comets are made and evolved. It followed a masters in optics and an undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Caltech. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Space Institute and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
David's bestselling novel - Kiln People - has been called a book of ideas disguised as a fast-moving and fun noir detective story, set in a future when new technology enables people to physically be in more than two places at once. His science fictional Uplift Universe explores a future when humans genetically engineer higher animals to become members of our civilization. A hardcover graphic novel "The Life Eaters" explored alternate outcomes to WWII. Foundation's Triumph brings to a grand finale Isaac Asimov's famed Foundation Universe. His popular online essays poke at convention and question comfortable assumptions.
As a speaker, David Brin shares unique insights — serious and humorous — about ways that changing technology may affect our future lives. Brin lives in San Diego County with his wife, three children, and a hundred very demanding trees.
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