David Brin

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Kiln

Kiln People (Jan-2002)
Existence (Jun-2012)

Uplift Saga

1 - Sundiver (1980)
2 - Startide Rising (Sep-1983)
3 - The Uplift War (Jun-1987)
4 - Brightness Reef (Sep-1995)
5 - Infinity's Shore (Nov-1996)
6 - Heaven's Reach (May-1999)

Multi-Author Series List

Marvel's Captain America

Thor Meets Captain America (Jun-2011)

Second Foundation

3 - Foundation's Triumph (May-1999)

Star Trek

Forgiveness (Nov-2002)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Forgiveness (Nov-2002)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Sundiver

    • / Space Opera
    • Buy Buy
    Uplift Saga - 1

    No species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron--except perhaps mankind. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the ...

  • Startide Rising

    Uplift Saga - 2

    The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed on the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Above, in space, armadas of alien races clash in a titanic struggle to claim her. Below, a ...

  • The Practice Effect

    Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds -- alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis discovered seemed almost like our own -- with one perplex...

  • River of Time

    THE RIVER OF TIME brings together eleven of David Brin's finest shorter works, including "The Crystal Spheres," winner of the Hugo Award for Best Short Story, and four new stories published here for the first time, each with an afterword by the autho...

  • The Postman

    He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker, his life changes forever. As he journeys from one isolated commun...

  • The Uplift War

    Uplift Saga - 3

    As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various Uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the exist...

  • Earth

    A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core, threatening to destroy the entire planet within two years. Some scientists are frantically searching for ways to prevent the disaster. But others argue that the only way to save ...

  • Glory Season

    A woman faces danger on the high seas of another planet -- and a mystery that will change her world -- in this adventure by the bestselling author of Startide Rising. On Planet Stratos, clans of genetically identical females dominate society. Na...

  • Otherness

    From multiple-award-winning author David Erin 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 wom...



  • Brightness Reef

    Uplift Saga - 4

    The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness,...

  • Infinity's Shore

    Uplift Saga - 5

    A once peaceful planet of refugees faces complete annihilation in this hard science fiction sequel to Brightness Reef.Book Two in the Uplift Storm TrilogyIt’s illegal to occupy the planet Jijo, but six castaway races have managed to coexist there f...

  • Tribes: It's 50,000 B.C. Where Are Your Children?

    In Tribes, the players are cave men and women. They hunt and gather food, make their tribal laws, and deal with natural disasters. But the object of the game is simple: Look after the children! In this game, the way to win is to have the most kids, a...

  • Foundation's Triumph

    Second Foundation - 3

    ONE LAST ADVENTURE! Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of ...

  • Heaven's Reach

    Uplift Saga - 6

    The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo both human and alien--brace for a final confrontation, The Jijoans' only hope is the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and ...

  • Kiln People

    Kiln

    In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into dead...

  • Contacting Aliens

    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 Davi...

  • Forgiveness

    Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise detect a stray transporter beam in deep space and when they realize that there's a living being inside the wayward beam--that being Colin Blakeney, the twenty-first century inventor of the transporter and hol...

  • Reality Check

    in Live Without a Net
    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Imagine a future without cyberspace... without the Web or virtual reality.... What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. Today's top masters of specula...

  • Tomorrow Happens

    An insightful, quicksilver romp through Brin's own mind. In the 20 essays, short stories, and little wonders in this book, David will take you from the worlds of Galileo Galilei and Jules Verne, through thoughtful explorations of Orwell and Tolkien, ...



  • The Life Eaters

    Imagine a world in which the Axis forces of World War II suddenly were propelled to victory over the Allies...prompted by aid from the ancient gods of Norse mythology! Welcome to the alternate reality of The Life Eaters, written by award-winning auth...

  • Kil'n Time

  • Sky Horizon

    "Some of the Math Club nerds have got a real live alien! They're hiding it in a basement rec room." High School junior Mark Bamford didn't believe the silly rumor. For one thing, California homes don't have basements. Besides. A stranded alien? Such ...

  • The Crystal Spheres

    In a universe filled with habitable worlds why have we had no contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? David Brin's "The Crystal Spheres" offers a fantastic explanation for the Great Silence. Instead of being late-comers - might humanity have come...

  • The Loom of Thessaly

    Who guides our fate? And can we ever hope to wrest control for ourselves? In this novella, David Brin merges classical mythology with impudent modern spirit in a science fiction legend that speculates upon the nature of reality. With an afterword by ...

  • Stones of Significance

    Heard of the "singularity"? A time of transition that some perceive just ahead of us, when our skill and knowledge and immense computing power transform us into... well... godlike beings? An immense topic! But from a writer's perspective, it presents...

  • Thor Meets Captain America

    Marvel's Captain America

    Nominated for a Hugo Award in 1987, Thor Meets Captain America offers an alternate history exploring a chilling scenario behind the Holocaust. In this parallel world, the Nazis narrowly avoid defeat in World War II when they are championed by the god...

  • Tank Farm Dynamo

    Can a sci fi story alter the course of something ponderous, like the space program? Perhaps. "Tank Farm Dynamo" sure tried! What if we found the nerve, the spirit and daring to use every resource - including those that NASA simply threw away? An unab...

  • Gorilla, My Dreams

    A comedy. This short story is set in David Brin’s Uplift Universe. In the distant future, chimpanzees and dolphins have been uplifted to starfaring status -- and are helping humans choose the next species for uplift, when powerful alien starships a...

  • Existence

    Kiln

    Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the d...



  • The Giving Plague

    Not all villains succeed at being evil. Not all diseases deserve the word plague. Fate can be ironic indeed. The chilling short story, The Giving Plague, follows microbiologist Forry, a self-proclaimed cynic, jealous of his “boy wonder” colleague...

  • Piecework

    The most sophisticated "engineering" process on Earth is pregnancy among mammals -- especially among humans. There is already talk of using goats and cattle to produce industrial products instead of milk, and possibly bringing to term organic machine...

  • Dr. Pak's Preschool

    What if education could be extended into the womb? Would we get brilliant, well-balanced babies? Monsters? Or a frightening/hopeful combination of both?Chilling and plausible and under option to be made a feature film, Dr. Pak's Preschool explores th...

  • Insistence of Vision

    What may we become? How will we endure? The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows, from the keen eye and colorful pen of David Brin, a modern master of sp...

  • Chasing Shadows

    David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of "The Uplift War," presents a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries. As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, a...

  • The Ancient Ones

    We never expected that inventing Star-Drive would lead to this!We were first! Humans invented star drive, bringing light and movement to the galaxy, forging a grand alliance with all races. (Well, most of them.) It seemed the galaxy was ours to lead ...

  • Colony High

    High school is hard enough. It gets a lot harder after the aliens show up. In the captivating YA science fiction novel "Colony High" by acclaimed author David Brin, the skeptical high school junior, Mark Bamford, finds himself caught up in a web of m...

  • The Best of David Brin

    One doesn't have to know the world perfectly, in order to know it better. That lesson—first taught by Galileo—dwells at the core of both science and science fiction, according to legendary author David Brin. Dangers and great challenges...

  • The Logs

    A heroic young girl named Sasha must negotiate old-school czarist animosity, alien overlords, harsh planetary conditions, and her own family obligations, all to endure bravely into a future more hopeful than certain. Thank goodness for the friendly, ...

  • Exiles



  • The Tell

    Not too far from now, the world is in a new arms race for predictive algorithms, a la Hari Seldon. The government who knows the future, controls the future. Can it be possible that a simple Vegas stage magician holds the key to this disruptive tech? ...

  • Castaways of New Mojave

    Interstellar kidnapping… or opportunity? A thousand teens and their teachers were stunned when the alien Garubis yanked Twenty-Nine Palms High School right out of California's Mojave desert, plopping it into a jungle many light years away. It ...

Award-Winning Books by David Brin

Otherness
1995 Locus Award -- Collection
The Postman
1986 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
1986 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Startide Rising
1983 Nebula Award -- Novel
1984 Hugo Award -- Novel
1984 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
The Uplift War
1988 Hugo Award -- Novel
1988 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Brin has published 41 books.

David Brin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Castaways of New Mojave, was published in August 2023.

The first book by David Brin, Sundiver, was published in January 1980.

Yes. David Brin has 2 series.
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