15 Facts About David Brin

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David Brin has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.

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David Brin graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astronomy, in 1973.

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In 2010, David Brin became a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

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David Brin helped establish the Arthur C Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD.

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David Brin serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies.

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David Brin has a side career in public speaking and consultation.

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David Brin appears frequently on science- or future-related television shows such as The Universe, Life After People, Alien Encounters, Worlds of Tomorrow.

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David Brin has participated in discussions at the Philanthropy Roundtable and other groups seeking innovative problem solving approaches.

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David Brin has Polish Jewish ancestry, from the area around Konin.

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David Brin's grandfather was drafted into the Russian army and fought in the Russian-Japanese War of 1905.

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About half of David Brin's works are in his Uplift Universe.

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David Brin has confirmed that this notion in part underscores the notion of humans as "caretakers" of sentient-species-yet-to-be, as he explains in a concluding note at the end of Startide Rising; and it plays a key role in The Uplift War, in which the Thennanin are converted from enemies to allies of the Terragens when they realize that making the world a better place and being good care-takers are core values of both civilizations.

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Many of David Brin's novels emphasize another element of Jewish tradition: the importance of laws and legality, whether intergalactic law in the Uplift series or that of near-future California in Kiln People.

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Still, David Brin has stated, "Truly mature citizens ought not to need an intricate wrapping of laws and regulations, in order to do what common sense dictates as good for all".

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David Brin designed the game Tribes, published in 1998 by Steve Jackson Games, and wrote the storyline for the 2000 Dreamcast video game Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future.