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David Brin

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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.


— David Brin


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I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.


— David Brin


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My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.


— David Brin


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My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.


— David Brin


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One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.


— David Brin


#events #follow #going #heroic #i

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.


— David Brin


#bringing #called #child #debt #full

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?


— David Brin


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But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.


— David Brin


#biology #far #find #honestly #i

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?


— David Brin


#apologize #come #corpses #late #must

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.


— David Brin


#anyone #author #buy #fictive #neither






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In the "Uplift" novels humans are economically and technologically the weakest spacefaring race and are an anomaly since they have no apparent "patron" species responsible for their uplift from animal pre-sapience (Whether their patron abandoned them or whether humans gained sentience on their own is never definitively settled). 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 where the Thennanin are converted from enemies to allies of the Terragens (humans and other sapients that originated on Earth) when they realize that making the world a better place and being good caretakers are core values of both civilizations. On Star Wars Brin focused on what he called George Lucas's "agenda" describing how he saw the basis of the Star Wars universe as profoundly anti-democratic.

D. He has received the HugoLocusCampbell and Nebula Awards.

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