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Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

David Brin

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David Brin
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 6
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
Scientist
Screenwriter
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Glendale
California
USA
Glen David Brin
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.
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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
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My education and background thoroughly inform my writing
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But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.
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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.
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Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
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Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
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In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign citizens, who have finally broken free of worshipping a ruling class and begun thinking for themselves. Democracy can seem frustrating and messy at times, but it delivers.
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You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
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The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
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It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.
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Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature
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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.
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I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
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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.
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