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Glen David Brin (born October 6 1950 ) is a well-known American author of Science Fiction . He is the winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Award s as well as the Interstella War Award. He lives in Southern California and has been both a NASA consultant and a Physics professor.


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Fiction

His Uplift series (two trilogies) are well recognised and deal with the concept of a huge galactic civilization responsible for "uplifting" all known intelligent forms of oxygen breathing life. Humanity within the context of these novels represents an anomaly since there is no known "patron" species responsible for their uplift and hence they lack a basic understanding and appreciation of the subtleties of galactic culture.

The Uplift Series

  • There is also an Uplift supplement for the Roleplaying Game GURPS allowing players to play out adventures in the universe detailed in these novels. Although he did not write it, he did contribute information to it.


Other well-known works by David Brin include his book set in Asimov's Foundation Universe :

and his stand alone novels:

His short fiction has been collected in:

Brin wrote the storyline for ''''.

Brin also wrote a number of critical articles on Star Wars and George Lucas for the website Salon.com here . Brin focused on what he called an "agenda" on the part of Lucas, describing how he believed the basis of the Star Wars universe was profoundly anti-democratic.


Nonfiction

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Several of his novels refer to the fictional Anglic language, a future Variety of English .


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  NAME Brin, Glen David
  ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brin, David
  SHORT DESCRIPTION American author
  DATE OF BIRTH October 6 1950
  PLACE OF BIRTH Glendale, California