sentientdevelopments.com - 3/24/2009
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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 ...
sentientdevelopments.com - 3/24/2009
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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 ...
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Will we "uplift" animals to sapiency?
sfnovelists.com - 3/23/2009
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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 — ...
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For Whom Do We Write?
webscription.net - 3/23/2009
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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 ...
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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: ...
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David Brin is guestblogging at Sentient Developments this week. [via Futurismic] ...
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David Brin on Uplift —
Biology in Science Fiction
While David Brin has written many fine novels, I think the most interesting are those set in his " Uplift universe ", in which "patron" species in the intergalactic civilization genetically modify non-sapient "client" species to bring them sapience. In this universe humans have uplifted and work ...
David Brin on "uplift" —
Posthuman Blues
Noted science fiction writer David Brin is guest-blogging at Sentient Developments. First up is an evaluation of the contentious prospect of "animal uplift," a concept that Brin's novels helped define: Artistically, of course, it is wonderful to work with characters who come from an uplifted ...