David Brin

The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach (The Uplift Saga) The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach (The Uplift Saga) - Kindle edition by Brin, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach (The Uplift Saga).

Today only, the entire UPLIFT STORM TRILOGY is available (e-version) for $4.99. If you want diverse and plausible aliens and FIVE galaxies, there's no better deal.

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YouTube video by BINGE Teacher explains why tariffs are bad | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | BINGE

Tariffs explained in Ferris Beuller! And ignoramuses double down on what caused calamities in the past. Worse, they are PROUD to know no history eg why the WWII/GIBill generation adored one living human above others. Franklin Roosevelt. And in the 1950s? Jonas Salk.

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Some lighthearted stuff this time! Plus a few sobering reminders. A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

All right, it's been 3 weeks without a posting on CONTRARY BRIN. Had reasons. And sure, there's plenty going on in the world. Which I'll comment on soon.

Meanwhile, got time for some humor and fun? Come fors a LOT of cool links and laughs!

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YouTube video by KXAN Texas House Committee Advances Congressional Redistricting Plan

Gross cheating continues. See the map! "Both sides do it?" Bull. Dems have pushed bills to end gerrymandering
If science-hating, putin-loving, utter-cheating maroons are left in charge, Earth and America and your children will die. That's it, in a nutshell.

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Today only. The e-book of HEAVEN'S REACH is just $1.99 on Kobo and your favorite sites.

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Trump plans $200M ballroom he’s long sought in East Wing expansion The project to construct a massive ballroom fulfills a wish for Trump, who has long disliked the tent pitched on the lawn to accommodate large-scale events.

If Obama had proposed 1/10th of this...

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Earth ebook by David Brin - Rakuten Kobo Read "Earth A Novel" by David Brin available from Rakuten Kobo. In this classic hard science fiction-thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author of Startide Rising, a man-made bl...

Today only, my novel EARTH - Hugo runner-up and on all top-10 lists of both 'predictive novels' and ecological ones - is on sale (e-book) for $2.99! Love live Gaia...

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Gabriel Over the White House - Wikipedia

I think I saw it long ago. A WEIRD film with some resonances to Trump's behavior in office. And thank heavens that same year we got FDR instead.
And saved the nation and the world.

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Startide Rising ebook by David Brin - Rakuten Kobo Read "Startide Rising" by David Brin available from Rakuten Kobo. A starship crew of humans and dolphins skirts the brink of interstellar war in this epic adventure by the New York Times...

Today: for just $2.99, the e-book of STARTIDE RISING -my 2nd novel & Hugo winner- featuring dolphins-in-space! Did I mention also Nebula & Locus winner?

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Today is Bastille Day. Felicitations to French friends and allies and thanks for helping shore up the Enlightenment as its central pillar teeters. Everyone study the stanzas of La Marseilles! Allons enfants de la partie...!

Science Fiction Updates! A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

My weekend post cycles back to sciencef fiction! News re Comicon & the World SF Convention. And Nicola's Grand Master speech and fine collectable editions! And best series for teen readers. And impudent takes on Dune! And much, much more.

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The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga Book 3) The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga Book 3) - Kindle edition by Brin, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga Book 3).

Today only - The Uplift War - Hugo for Best Novel - is on sale (e-version) for $2.99. apparently just on Amazon

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For those of you who still read, these Open Road editions... of about 40% of my books... are well-worthwhile as thought experiments to widen your view of reality and the future!

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YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning against AI

Damien Walter- in one of the best pod-videos all year - explores implications of DUNE. Frank Herbert’s message against dark age feudalism got buried as millions yearn for one of the most oppressive societies ever depicted in mythology. Watch this.

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Here again: my questionnaire re politics, ideology & human destiny assembled to illuminate why you feel as you do about many issues & why other smart humans weirdly disagree. Like Socrates, ask questions about roots to your beliefs, that you never knew were there!

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See how ignorant zillionaires deem selves supreme intellects, when they know nothing about Adam Smith or Karl Marx or the post WWII design that led to the greatest surge in wealth, shared prosperity, rising tolerance, science and progress the world ever saw.

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The Essential Robert Duncan Milne — Ari Brin

Fans of Jules Verne and great Steam Punk Era science fiction? Seeour daughter's brilliant new book about one of Verne's Californian sci fi contemporaries! Revealing how San Francisco was one of the birthplaces of the genre of truly bold exploration of ideas!

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To make next July 4 a true Independence Day - How About a Little Paine? Thomas Paine. A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

My posting invokes Thomas Paine, whose words roused new hope from those shivering along the Delaware to gird for a long fight. The original "No Kings" winter soldiers. I link Paine to heroes of all generations. History teaches "We can do this!"

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YouTube video by Dr Brian Keating David Brin: A Conversation with the legendary Futurist & Science Fiction Author

I’m interviewed about the outer contours of physics, by renowned UCSD physicist Brian Keating.

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YouTube video by Scott Manley We Just Discovered The Fastest Interstellar Comet Yet - 150,000 MILES PER HOUR

Okay then re the newly discovered a 3rd hyperbolic interstellar object, streaking into the Solar System. Will we ever get close to study one? Scott Manley explains it well (Though confusing two orbital mechanics terms.) And he misses the solution. The Linares statite.
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Missing contexts for AI: The context of mental damage A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

My midweek postings will be excerpts from my new book on AI, including a dozen missing contexts the genius AI makers likely never considered, in their race to create new entities with persuasive language skills, predatory natures and zero semblance of sanity.

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Elon Musk vows to start a new political party after Trump feud. Here's why that's harder than it sounds. Billionaire Elon Musk is floating a new political party dubbed the "America Party" — but the idea could face major hurdles.

Needed a True Republican Party devoted to market enterprise, competition, fiscal rectitude, respect for professionalism, facts and science, and opposing an expansive (still commie) rebuilt USSR. Hence 'conservative' in every way that's opposite to Trump/Putinism.

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Ooooh! Can't wait till it's my turn!

Lisa Murkowski says it was ‘agonizing’ to vote for the megabill The Alaska senator slammed the brakes on the legislation overnight but ultimately voted to advance it after winning key concessions for her state.

I've long asserted - (3(!) former GOP Reps agree!) - that many DC Republicans are blackmailed. Corruption or ideology or being 'primaried' can't explain tsunamis of treason. M&Collins monthly express 'disappointment' with their party. Check their male relatives?

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Oh, those misleading teleologies about "progress" - and a few political notes A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

Most use terms like the political "left' and 'right' clueless what they mean. See why the 'right' is skeptical of human-designed Progress and those 'left' tend to believe in human redesign. Elsewhere I explain what Marx, Hayek and Adam Smith ACTUALLY said.

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Trump’s shocking pick: Thomas Fugate, 22-year-old ex-gardener, now leads US anti-terror efforts as US bombs Iran Amidst escalating tensions with Iran following U.S. airstrikes on nuclear sites, President Trump appointed 22-year-old Thomas Fugate, a former gardener and grocery store clerk, to lead the Center for ...

Mad Caligula tested the Roman Senate appointing as Consul his horse. No Senator stood up to that, or to C's sadist orgies etc. Today it would take just 2 Senators and 2 Reps to curb the insanity by half or more. Someone do a meme on Caligula's horse?

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ISW* assesses the Kremlin is trying to grab the militaries of former Soviet states into the Russian Armed Forces to recreate a combined army in the former Soviet space. The Kremlinboys of the KGB-run US Republican Party are helping Vlad rebuild the USSR.

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This observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

"We'll detect millions of changing objects literally every night," says the new Vera Rubin Telescope which had 1st Light this morning. Detecting CHANGES amid 40 billion stars & galaxies etc, finding asteroids... YOUR civilization does stuff like this. For now.

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Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake - And the noblest president of my lifetime. A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

My weekend post: revisits Jimmy Carter as Iran takes center stage, alongside the most opposite-to-Carter (and opposite-to-Jesus) human being ever to occupy the White House. You know some of the contrasts. You do NOT know the most pertinent ones.

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Video of my Grand Master speech Speeches are meant to be experienced in person—preferably live. But video works pretty well: here for your delectation and delight: my 7-minute Grand Master acceptance speech.

Deservedly installed Grand Master Nicola Griffith relates how SF persuaded her that ancient injustices can be overcome. MC Erin Roberts amazed with perspectives passionate, amusing and insightful. She's the real deal that's needed now, more than ever.

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