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Alas, Babylonby Pat Frank, David BrinISBN 0060741872 (0-06-074187-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alas, Babylon'Book summary:The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.
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Brightness Reefby David BrinISBN 0553100343 (0-553-10034-3)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brightness Reef'Book summary:Millennia ago the Five Galaxies decreed the planet Jijo off limits. But in the last thousand years six races have begun resettling Jijo, embracing a pre-industrial life to hide their existence from the Galactics. Overcoming their differences, the Six have built a society based on mutual tolerance for one another and respect for the planet they live on. But that has all changed with an event the Six have feared for hundreds of years: the arrival of an outside ship. Author David Brin has returned to his popular Uplift universe in this, the first book of a new trilogy. [via]
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Earthby David BrinISBN 0356190994 (0-356-19099-4)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth'Book summary:The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Uplift War--an epic novel set fifty years from tomorrow, a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Line drawings. [via]
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Foundation's Triumphby David BrinISBN 0061056391 (0-06-105639-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Triumph'Book summary:Isaac Asimov's 1951-53 Foundation trilogy is a rough-hewn classic of far future SF, honored with a unique 1965 Hugo for Best All-Time Series. It begins with "psychohistorian" Hari Seldon mapping the best possible course for humanity's next millennium, after the fall of the doomed Galactic Empire. Late in life Asimov revisited the series and awkwardly linked it with his popular robot stories--introducing vast conspiracy theories to explain the Empire's total lack of visible robots.
Asimov's estate authorized three SF notables to fill out Seldon's life in the Second Foundation Trilogy, which David Brin here wraps up after Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear and Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos. Chaos is the new keyword, because chaos theory seemingly makes nonsense of psychohistorical prediction. Whole planetary populations can lapse into chaotic rebellion despite secret mind-controlling agencies behind the scenes. So Seldon makes his last interstellar journey, harried, lectured, and even kidnapped by the warring factions of robots and not-quite-robots that have long manipulated humanity. The robots' dilemma:
"We are loyal, and yet far more competent than our masters. For their own sake, we have kept them ignorant, because we know too well what destructive paths they follow, whenever they grow too aware."
Brin does his best with Asimov's overcrowded legacy, skillfully steering Seldon to an insight about the much-foretold future that satisfies both the old man and the reader, with a spark of human free will and constructive chaos shining through the grayness of predestination. Asimov would have approved. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Glory Seasonby David BrinISBN 0553076450 (0-553-07645-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Heart of the Cometby Gregory Benford, David BrinISBN 0553172913 (0-553-17291-3)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of the Comet'Book summary:1st Bantam edition paperback, fine [via]
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Heaven's Reachby David BrinISBN 0553101749 (0-553-10174-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heaven's Reach'Book summary:In Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore, David Brin boldly returned to the Uplift universe he so brilliantly invented in the Nebula and Hugo award-winning trilogy Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War. Now he concludes this second trilogy with his most imaginative and emotionally powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.After centuries of mutual peace, the "sooner" experiment on planet Jijo is coming to a tragic end. The six fugitive races that escaped there from the Five Galaxies have been discovered by ancient enemies. The terrifying Jophur have plans for the exiled inhabitants: a program of genocide and forced breeding to suit their own perverted needs.The Jijoans' only hope is the very ship that inadvertently led the Jophur to their obscure planet. The Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins, commanded by an untested human, engages the Jophur in a desperate race to a mysterious point in space that could well mean the destruction of them both. Yet more than just the fate of Jijo hangs in the balance. For Streaker carries a cargo of ancient artifacts that may unlock the secret of the Progenitors, the mythical race that first brought sapience to the galaxies. Some believe a dire prophecy is already coming to pass: an age of terrifying changes in time and space that could end galactic civilization.Against this apocalyptic backdrop, sapient beings, both human and alien, must come together to face the ultimate crisis. An uplifted chimpanzee scout must overcome prejudice and his own limitations to survive the bizarre terrors of increasingly unstable hyperspace. [via]
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Infinity's Shoreby David BrinISBN 0553101730 (0-553-10173-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinity's Shore'Book summary:This second volume in David Brin's new Uplift trilogy is an epic tale that artfully combines dozens of unique characters and their individual stories. The planet Jijo, which has been settled by six separate races despite a decree that it remain barren for a million years, is about to change. The exploration ship Streaker, on the run since discovering the secrets of a two-billion-year-old derelict fleet, has arrived with virtually the entire universe in pursuit. Overnight the peaceful, technologically backwards Jijoan society erupts into civil war, creating a chaotic tapestry of grief, sorrow, joy, love and, ultimately, hope. [via]
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The Postmanby David BrinISBN 0553171933 (0-553-17193-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Postman'Book summary:Gordon Krantz survived the Doomwar only to spend years crossing a post-apocalypse United States looking for something or someone he could believe in again. Ironically, when he's inadvertently forced to assume the made-up role of a "Restored United States" postal inspector, he becomes the very thing he's been seeking: a symbol of hope and rebirth for a desperate nation. Gordon goes through the motions of establishing a new postal route in the Pacific Northwest, uniting secluded towns and enclaves that are starved for communication with the rest of the world. And even though inside he feels like a fraud, eventually he will have to stand up for the new society he's helping to build or see it destroyed by fanatic survivalists. This classic reprint is not one of David Brin's best books, but the moving story he presents overcomes mediocre writing and contrived plots. [via]
The Practice Effectby David BrinISBN 0553171844 (0-553-17184-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The River of Timeby David BrinISBN 0553173987 (0-553-17398-7)
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Startide Risingby David BrinISBN 0553171704 (0-553-17170-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Startide Rising'Book summary:David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?
The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.
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Sundiverby David BrinISBN 0553171623 (0-553-17162-3)
Softcover, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
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Tiger in the Skyby Sheila Finch, David BrinISBN 0380799715 (0-380-79971-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tiger in the Sky'Book summary:In the year 2345, humanity's descendents live in a utopia in peril. They reach back through time to the late 20th century for help to save the Earth. Teens from Earth's troubled times have a chance to become true heroes when they are "yanked" out of time. Tough-minded Nan and brainy Jerry have it hard enough in 1999. Then they find themselves yanked into the future to join with "team members" Ailee, from 2234, and Will, from 1579, on a mission to Oort One, a small scientific base on the edge of the solar system. The base is overrun with alien pests that cause mysterious electrical disturbances and threaten the station's very life-support systems. The Thogmags are furry, they're cute, they're no bigger than gerbils, and they're breeding like crazy. They might seem harmless, but with their strange mental effect on humans, they have the power to destroy everything -- even the Earth itself -- unless the team's final desperate plan turns out to be the cat's meow .... [via]
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The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedomby David BrinISBN 020132802X (0-201-32802-X)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom'Book summary:In New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and "smart" toll roads know where you drive. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy. Such measures, he warns, won't really preserve our privacy. Governments, the wealthy, criminals, and the techno-elite will still find ways to watch us. But we'll have fewer ways to watch them. We'll lose the key to a free society: accountability.The Transparent Society is a call for "reciprocal transparency." If police cameras watch us, shouldn't we be able to watch police stations? If credit bureaus sell our data, shouldn't we know who buys it? Rather than cling to an illusion of anonymity-a historical anomaly, given our origins in close-knit villages-we should focus on guarding the most important forms of privacy and preserving mutual accountability. The biggest threat to our freedom, Brin warns, is that surveillance technology will be used by too few people, now by too many.A society of glass houses may seem too fragile. Fearing technology-aided crime, governments seek to restrict online anonymity; fearing technology-aided tyranny, citizens call for encrypting all data. Brins shows how, contrary to both approaches, windows offer us much better protection than walls; after all, the strongest deterrent against snooping has always been the fear of being spotted. Furthermore, Brin argues, Western culture now encourages eccentricity-we're programmed to rebel! That gives our society a natural protection against error and wrong-doing, like a body's immune system. [via]
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The Uplift Warby David BrinISBN 0553174525 (0-553-17452-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Uplift War'Book summary:Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered techniques by which non-intelligent creatures are given intelligence by one of the higher races in the galaxy. Once "Uplifted," these creature must serve their patron race before they, in turn, can Uplift other races. Human intelligence, which developed by itself (and brought about the Uplifting of chimpanzees and dolphins), is an affront to the aliens who plan an attack, threatening a human experiment aimed at producing the next Uplift. Such is the premise of this novel, which won the 1988 Hugo Award. [via]
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