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David Brin


David Brin is the author of ten previous novels, Sundiver, The Uplift War, Startide Rising, The Practice Effect, The Postman, Heart of the Comet (with Gregory Benford), Earth, Glory Season, Brightness Reef, and Infinity's Shore, as well as the short-story collections The River of Time and Otherness. He has a doctorate in astrophysics and has been a NASA consultant and a physics professor. He lives in southern California, where he is at work on his next novel.

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Brightness Reef
Written by David Brin

eBook | 688 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57272-1 (0-307-57272-2)

April 14, 2010 | $10.99



David Brin's Uplift novels--Sundiver, Hugo award winner The Uplift War, and Hugo and Nebula winner Startide Rising--are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction tales ever written.  Now David Brin returns to this future universe for a new Uplift trilogy, packed with adventure, passion and wit.

The planet Jijo is forbidden to...

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Contacting Aliens
Written by David Brin and Kevin Lenagh

eBook | 208 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-43302-2 (0-307-43302-1)

April 14, 2010 | $22.95



The award-winning Uplift novels comprise one of the greatest achievements in science fiction history. Dramatic, thought-provoking, and inventive, these books describe a fully realized world rich in character, detail, and ideas. Now Uplift author David Brin collaborates with acclaimed artist Kevin Lenagh to compile the definitive guide to the species, societies...

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Startide Rising
Written by David Brin

eBook | 496 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction - High Tech
978-0-307-57521-0 (0-307-57521-7)

April 14, 2010 | $10.99



David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.  Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without...

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Sundiver
Written by David Brin

eBook | 368 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57525-8 (0-307-57525-X)

April 14, 2010 | $10.99





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The Postman
Written by David Brin

eBook | 336 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57501-2 (0-307-57501-2)

January 20, 2010 | $10.99



This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth.  A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from...

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Infinity's Shore
Written by David Brin

eBook | 688 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57354-4 (0-307-57354-0)

January 13, 2010 | $10.99



Nebula and Hugo award-winning author David Brin continues his bestselling Uplift series in this second novel of a bold new trilogy. Imaginative, inventive, and filled with Brin's trademark mix of adventure, passion, and wit, Infinity's Shore carries us further than ever before into the heart of the most beloved and extraordinary...

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Heaven's Reach
Written by David Brin

eBook | 576 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57350-6 (0-307-57350-8)

December 30, 2009 | $11.99



Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.

The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now...

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Otherness
Written by David Brin

eBook | 368 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction - High Tech
978-0-307-57370-4 (0-307-57370-2)

December 23, 2009 | $11.99



From multiple award-winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays of the near and distant future, as humans and aliens encounter the secrets of the cosmos--and of their own existence.  In "Dr. Pak's Preschool" a woman discovers that her baby has been called upon to work while still...

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The Practice Effect
Written by David Brin

eBook | 288 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57502-9 (0-307-57502-0)

December 23, 2009 | $10.99





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The Uplift War
Written by David Brin

eBook | 672 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction - Space Opera
978-0-307-57535-7 (0-307-57535-7)

December 16, 2009 | $11.99



David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.  Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without...

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Glory Season
Written by David Brin

eBook | 784 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-307-57346-9 (0-307-57346-X)

October 28, 2009 | $10.99



Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction.  Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing the genre to new heights.

Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life.  As a half-caste var...

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Earth
Written by David Brin

eBook | 704 pages | Spectra | Fiction - Science Fiction - High Tech
978-0-307-57340-7 (0-307-57340-0)

October 21, 2009 | $9.99





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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Written by Jules Verne
Introduction by David Brin

eBook | pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-1-58836-395-4 (1-58836-395-3)

December 9, 2003 | $4.95



The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of...

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Written by Jules Verne
Introduction by David Brin

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Science Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-8129-7009-8 (0-8129-7009-8)

December 9, 2003 | $13.95



The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of...

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Contacting Aliens
Written by David Brin and Kevin Lenagh

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Science Fiction
978-0-553-37796-5 (0-553-37796-5)

June 25, 2002 | $22.95



The award-winning Uplift novels comprise one of the greatest achievements in science fiction history. Dramatic, thought-provoking, and inventive, these books describe a fully realized world rich in character, detail, and ideas. Now Uplift author David Brin collaborates with acclaimed artist Kevin Lenagh to compile the definitive guide to the species, societies...

Also available as an eBook.

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