David Brin

Whenever a new genre comes of age, when its time arrives, it signals a small yet significant shift in public awareness. Before sci-fi arrived on the scene in the 1920s, via short stories in science fiction magazines that set the stage for future SF writers like Isaac Asimov and Harlen Corben and David Brin, the […]

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One of my mentors in the world of sci-fi literature is the SF novelist David Brin. I once asked him about how climate change themes have been influencing sci-fi novels and movies, and he told me by email: “Global warming and flooding were important in my 1989 novel ‘Earth’ but they were earlier in the […]

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