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David Brin guest blogging here next week
David Brin guest blogging here next week
Science fiction writer, scientist and renowned futurist David Brin will be guest blogging here on Sentient Developments next week. Brin is a best-selling author whose future-oriented novels include Earth and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War (a part of the Uplift ...
Will we "uplift" animals to sapiency?
Will we "uplift" animals to sapiency?
sentientdevelopments.com — David Brin is guest blogging this week. Greetings, oh developing sentient beings! Let me thank George Dvorsky for this opportunity to chatter with his blogizens and answer a few questions -- or else face some of the "reciprocal accountability" of ... (more) Will we "uplift" animals to sapiency?
For Whom Do We Write?
sfnovelists.com — I finished a novel a couple of weeks ago. It’s the first book in a new series that I’ve yet to sell to a publisher. I love this book. I think it may be the best thing I’ve ever written, and I have ideas for subsequent books in the series — ... (more) For Whom Do We Write?
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 1
webscription.net — Back | Next Contents Cover The Smartest Mob . . . (a parable about times soon to come) Written by David Brin Illustrated by Lee Kuruganti Washington was like a geezer overweight and sagging, but with attitude. Most of its gutty heft lay below the ... (more) - Chapter 1
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David Brin guestblogging at Sentient Developments this week
Futurismic — ... This week, transhumanist blogger George Dvorsky’s site Sentient Developments plays host to no less a science fiction luminary than David Brin as guest blogger. Says Dvorsky: ...

SF Tidbits for 3/25/09
SF Signal — ... swordsman and master of all magical makers, who appears soon in the novel Blood of Ambrose. "Petrified" by Scott Edelman. [PDF, via Bibliophile Stalker] @Kat and Mouse: "Easy Money" - Part Twelve by Abner Senires. @Hub: "Hush a Bye" by Beverley Allen. @Fantasy Magazine: "Jane" by Nicole Kornher-Stace. @Strange Horizons: "The Spider in You" by Sean E. Markey. David Brin is guestblogging at Sentient Developments this week. [via Futurismic] ...

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