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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
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Glendale
California
USA
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.'
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Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.
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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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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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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.
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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
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If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.
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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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Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
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I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.
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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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Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
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