CONTRARY BRIN

LOOKING TOWARD THE FUTURE

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

David Hartwell, a true original - and who are "forgotten" great SF authors?

David G. Hartwell passed on suddenly, at age 74, after a tragic fall caused unstoppable cerebral bleeding. One of the greatest editors in l...

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The value of pessimists… the necessity of optimists

I have long maintained that the greatest blessing and curse of humanity has been our near infinite capacity for delusion. To firmly beli...

Saturday, January 16, 2016

A Tsunami of Science Fiction Shows

== A multitude of new shows == Turning from the (almost always) ridiculous to the (very often) sublime, CBS plans to release a new Sta...

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Conspiracies, Japan's "recession," voting fraud and other nonsense

This rather moving essay by an immigrant engineer tells of her shock - at first - over something rather simple. She had seen American ca...

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David Brin: is a scientist, futurist and best-selling author. His novels include Earth, Existence, The Postman, and Kiln People, as well as Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War. The Transparent Society won a Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Assn.

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