Science Fiction News!

The next World Science Fiction Convention - LAConV - will be held in Anaheim near Los Angeles August 27-31 2026. Among the featured events will be a live performance of my science-fictional - and theological - play "The Escape!" (If you are a theater producer/director, contact me for a show pass!.

 

Science Fiction's prestigious Hugo Award finalist list came out this morning! Vote as a member of the 84th annual World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, California, Or pick up a virtual membership which gives you the ability to access some of our awesome programming from afar for just $85.00! Either way, if you join soon, you can vote in the Hugos!

(Hugo Awards are also great mantel ornaments, if you balance the effect with three of them. Take my word for that.)

Oh... hint... have a look at what might (I suggest) be a good nominee for Best SF-related nonfiction of 2026!

My nonfiction collection, Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes and Iconoclastic Essays - has been re-released.

== Good things to read, meanwhile ==

Barnes & Noble list 25 basic science fictional ‘tropes’, giving examples of each, from teleportation to hyperdrive to alien invasion.  My works are cited as examples twice. Fun list! 

Now available in e-version! Subterranean sold out of their deluxe collector’s edition of The Best of David Brin. Now it’s available in e-version. And just released in paperback by Amazing Stories.

If you missed my serialized sci fi comedy novel entitled The Ancient Ones… here’s a link to the first 8 or so chapters with lovely illustrations. And lots of Yuks! (Or else yucks, you decide!)

Speaking of sci fi comedy… Dang. This one - Beam Me Up, Bubba! - makes AI worthwhile!

And one more of mine: Can industrial innovation be restored, down at the level of amateurs, hobbyists and local love of skill? Here’s my own comic book about American innovation in the near future is TINKERERS!  

Terry Pratchett's comedy series is now a fun movie: The Color of Magic.

And more pertinent than ever, for right now. “Brin reads the opening of EXISTENCE.”

 

      == Meanwhile… ==

Oh, human augmentation is also the topic of a whole chapter in ailien minds!

It's a theme that's straight outta sci fi and while I give talks to defense folks about Human Augmentation... the "Enhanced Games" will allow athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs, as in Achilles' Choice by Niven & Barnes. Let's have 5+ Olympics:

1. A return to a core one for amateurs

2. One for pros

3. The Special, of course for those who overcome so much

4. Robots! and animals

5. Cyborgs! And

6. Dome flying on the moon!... and a 7th on open-invite to any aliens or uplifted critters who wanna come on down and join in. Keep inviting till someone shows.

And no. SNUB the UFO guys! They are nasty bad-guests, if they exist. (And they likely don't.)

== Okay... this one impressed me... ==

Someone prompted an LLM to write a prologue and 1st chapters of an uplift novel in the style of David Brin. Have a look for interest. Interestingly, the intellectual content of the piece... its complexity and pertinence of ideas... is almost satisfactory, while the basic mechanics of style and fiction narrative are so lacking that I'd have to spend hours tutoring a young author in my Out of Time YA series, in order to get it close to my standards of basic craft. My universe? Perhaps. My style? Puh-lease.

 == More SciFi News ==

I truly am still writing sci fi... or at least helping others to do so.

My YA series Yanked -- or David Brin's Out of Time series* - has been re-released, with new additions, including Storm's Eye by October K. Santerelli, and The Archimedes Gambit by Patrick Freivald. Re-releases of the original three by Kress, Finch and Allen. 

And now three more! Boondoggle by Tom Easton and Torion Oey, Raising the Roof, by Richard Doyle, and Snowdance by SciFi legend Allen Steele and Robin Orm Hansen!

You'll love em all!

Finally... a reminder:  I'm posting my SF comedy The Ancient Ones, chapter by chapter. Samples were available on my website. Be ready for laughs + painful puns! And some sci fi concepts taken to um... extremes. Oh and there'll be freebies for best groaner comments to adjust the final version.

*The “Out of Time” (or “Yanked!”) series: Only teens can teleport through time and space! Dollops of fun, adventure & optimism for young adults.