David Brin
David Brin
Glen David Brinis an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His Campbell Award-winning novel The Postman was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 October 1950
CountryUnited States of America
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
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.
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
The village is coming back, like it or not.
Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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.
When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.
If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.