David Brin Quotes

• It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

  David Brin

  Topics in Life, Power

  Tags in Ture

• Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of s*xy… 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Fun

• 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.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Product

• But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

  David Brin

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Science

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

  David Brin

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Delightful

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feature

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

  David Brin

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Human

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  I find humans tremendously  interesting.

   

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humans

• I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Like, Feeling

• I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write

• In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

  David Brin

  Topics in Enemy

  Tags in Selfish

• My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.

  David Brin

  Topics in Education

• My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Duty

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

  David Brin

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Empower

• One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rules

• Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I’ve had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam… and I’m not happy to be right in all of those cases.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• 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.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, past

• She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents

• 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

  Topics in History

• There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

  David Brin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

David Brin (24)

Birth:	6th October, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Astrophysicist, Novelist

About

David Brin was born in Glendale, California. He is an American astrophysicist 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. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astrophysics in 1973. He earned a Master of Science in applied physics in 1978 at the University of California, San Diego, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in space science in 1981.

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