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David Brin

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Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.


— David Brin


#aim #even #every #features #fun

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.


— David Brin


#democracy #empowered #knowledgeable #only #perform

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.


— David Brin


#delightful #depict #interesting #try

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.


— David Brin


#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.


— David Brin


#best #change #deal #does #explore

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from.


— David Brin


#diverse #fortunately #human #human beings #models






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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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