Brin has lectured worldwide on topics as diverse as Ecology, Information Technology, Twenty-first Century extrapolation, Spaceflight, and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Life. He serves on government and non-government advisory committees dealing with the future "information superhighway."
Heart of the Comet, Brin's collaboration with noted novelist and physicist Gregory Benford, won rave reviews as a spellbinding blend of speculative science and dramatic fiction. The Uplift War, a 1987 novel, was a New York Times best-seller and recipient of that year's Hugo and Locus Awards.
David Brin's ecological thriller, Earth, deals on a wide scope with both the danger and hope lying in wait for this oasis world of ours. Global warming, pollution, and destruction of the ozone layer are topics which drew considerable attention from both scientists and the environmental movement, as well as the most highly regarded depiction, to-date, of tomorrow's information superhighway. It has become a cult classic among those designing data pathways to lace every city around the globe, it appears on several bestseller lists, and has been film-optioned.
In his 1998 non-fiction book, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?, Brin deals with a range of unexpected threats and opportunities facing our wired society in the electronic age. Brin has been contracted to write the final volume of the Second Foundation Trilogy, continuing the adventures of Hari Seldon, in Isaac Asimov's famous universe. (Books One and Two are being authored by Gregory Benford and Greg Bear.)
A former fellow at the California Space Institute, David Brin speaks at public schools, sharing his passionate enthusiasm for the future. His novels have been translated into twenty languages and non-fiction articles have appeared in many magazines. Claiming to be "in love with this amazing, scary, fascinating century," David Brin makes extensive use of his scientific training in his writing, bringing to his novels an intense passion for the exploration of ideas, and the human spirit. He now lives in San Diego County with his wife, Cheryl Brigham who is also a scientist, three children, and a hundred very demanding trees.
"I think it's an author's duty to inform, delight, inspire but above all to entertain and be fair with the reader, to share a little excitement for some of the danger, possibility, and wonder the future holds."
Biography excerpted from Wholebody@sfo.com with contributions by David Brin. Photo from Kaleidospace.