Mastodawn

David Brin Jan 24, 2025

Today only, one of my favorite novels GLORY SEASON is just $1.99 (e-book) in Kobo (preferred) and B&N and Amazon. Oh, guess what? The same sale applies to EARTH, which appears on almost every list of Top Ten Modern Predictive Novels.

https://www.davidbrin.com/gloryseason.html

DAVID BRIN: Glory Season

In GLORY SEASON, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates, and separation from her twin. And along the way she will meet a traveler who has come an unimaginable distance - and who threatens the delicate balance of Stratoin's carefully maintained perfect society.

David Brin Jan 17, 2025

Startide Rising -my 2nd novel that zoomed my career- is $1.99 today (e-book). ALSO try to STAY OFF FACEBOOK and X starting tomorrow through Feb1. Not total exit yet- but a 1st gesture. Our silence for a week or two could send a message. Spread word.
https://www.davidbrin.com/startiderising.html

DAVID BRIN: Startide Rising

In STARTIDE RISING the Terran exploration vessel Streaker, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history, has crash-landed on the uncharted world of Kithrup. Its human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret - the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.

David Brin Jan 16, 2025

Fewer posts? So busy! But here I offer life's basic contradiction! Between the genetic self-interest of individuals & the natural -or social- systems they are in. Too think-y for the web? OK I add THEOLOGICAL demolition of Pete Hegseth. For light fun.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-meaning-and-most-basic.html

The Meaning - (and most basic contradiction) - of Life

A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

David Brin Jan 15, 2025

In April 2023 X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis launched an $11M XPRIZE Wildfire: "...a global incentive competition whose goal it is to detect a fire at ignition and put it out within 10 minutes." Such efforts have been going on for a long time.
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/wildfire?

XPRIZE Wildfire

The $11M XPRIZE Wildfire is a 4-year competition to innovate firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires. XPRIZE Wildfire is made possible

XPRIZE

David Brin Jan 14, 2025

One week. Joe could still do it. Lure the blackmailed in DC into the open. All it might take is...

https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/11/joe-mark-do-these-now-my-own-post.html

Joe & Mark do these now! My own post-mortem can wait.

A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.

David Brin Jan 14, 2025

You must watch these two minutes of Tim Kaine grilling a perfect example of today's Republican nominees. Stunning to finally find a Democrat capable of polemical knife-fighting. Demand wagers which party's top guys have 3x or even 4x as many wives.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/14/politics/video/pete-hegseth-marriage-affairs-senate-hearing-tim-kaine-digvid

Sen. Kaine grills Hegseth about affair and sexual assault accusation | CNN Politics

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) questioned if Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick to be defense secretary, will uphold the oath of office, if confirmed. During a confirmation hearing, Kaine focused on Hegseth’s character, bringing up his extra-marital affair with a Fox News producer that resulted in a baby. Kaine also raised that Hegseth has admitted to what he describes as a consensual encounter with a woman in California in October 2017, shortly after the birth of the child. That woman accused Hegseth of sexual assault. Hegseth repeatedly denied all allegations and cast doubt on their credibility, dismissing them as “anonymous.”

CNN

David Brin Jan 13, 2025

2025 phase one awards by NASA’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program – (NIAC)! Truly mind-expanding possible endeavors, in early phase studies.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/niac-2025-selections/
https://www.nasa.gov/niac-funded-studies/

NIAC 2025 Selections - NASA

Phillip AnsellHydrogen Hybrid Power for Aviation Sustainable Systems (Hy2PASS)University of IllinoisUrbana, IL 61801-29572025 Phase I

NASA

David Brin Jan 12, 2025

Today only, EARTH is just $1.99 (e-book). Came in 2nd for the Hugo and ranked high on every list of best 'predictive" novels, and always being nibbled-at by movie producers/directors. Could it save the namesake planet? Do your own bit!

https://www.davidbrin.com/earth.html

DAVID BRIN: Earth

In EARTH It's fifty years from tomorrow. A microscopic black hole has accidentally fallen into the Earth's core and the entire planet is in danger of being destroyed within two years. A team of scientists frantically searches for a way to prevent the ultimate disaster. But while they look for an answer, others argue that the only way to save the Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to let the million-year evolutionary clock rewind and start over.

David Brin Jan 10, 2025

all-out war vs ALL fact using professions, from science and teaching, medicine and law and civil service to the heroes of the FBI/Intel/Military officer corps who won the Cold War and the War on terror.

David Brin Jan 9, 2025

Fun discussion of spaceflight and our anthology for the Planetary Society PROJECT SOLAR SAIL! My co-editor Dr. Stephen Potts & I - interviewed by Mat Kaplan - discuss Arthur Clarke's "The Wind From The Sun" and other great contents by Asimov, Vance, etc
https://www.planetary.org/video/planetary-society-book-club-project-solar-sail-with-david-brin

The Planetary Society Book Club: Project Solar Sail With David Brin

Famed scientist and science fiction author David Brin and co-editor Stephen W. Potts join the Society's Mat Kaplan for a rousing, rollicking conversation…

The Planetary Society

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