History Creator / DavidBrin

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: While ''Earth'' is set in the year 2040, the book itself was written in ''1990''. As such, certain plot elements and devices have grown to be more than a bit hit-and-miss, with some of them becoming more likely, while others will never come to pass. [[http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/w/page/15607657/Predictions Some websites]] make a point of collating and corroborating these seeming predictions.

* EvilVersusEvil: Gets a mention in "Thor Meets Captain America." The Nazi gain the upper hand by using genocide as fuel for a necromantic spell to create the Norse gods. The protagonist realises this too late to pass the message on.

* ''Literature/FoundationsTriumph''

Brin is probably the best known of the authors sometimes referred to as "the Killer B's", which also includes Creator/GregBear and Creator/GregoryBenford. The three are often credited with helping to revitalize [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard SF]] after the rise of {{Cyberpunk}}. They became associated when each wrote one volume of a prequel trilogy to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/FoundationSeries''.

* Masquerade Enforcer: The short story ''[[https://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/thoseeyes.html Those Eyes]]'' has humans being able to kill fairies. Humans that look at fairies with skepticism [[DeadlyGaze can utterly disintegrate]] the fay.

* RomanticismVsEnlightenment: His views fall firmly on the Enlightenment side, with many criticisms of Romanticism both in fiction and real life.

Brin is probably the best known of the authors sometimes referred to as "the Killer B's", which also includes Creator/GregBear and Creator/GregoryBenford. The three are often credited with helping to revitalize [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard SF]] after the rise of {{Cyberpunk}}. They became associated when each wrote one volume of a prequel trilogy to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series.

* ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series

* ''Literature/KilnPeople''
* ''Literature/{{Existence}}''

* RuleOfFun: Makes it clear that his ''Star Wars on Trial'' articles are primarily for fun even if they're written as SeriousBusiness.

* {{Balloonacy}}: Discussed in ''Glory Season''; the balloon-like creatures called zoor have enough lift that children can can ride the larger ones by grabbing onto their tentacles.

* FeudalFuture: "The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf" explores the possibility that even in a highly technological society, humans are hard-wired to need royalty. The sentient computer(s) running much of Earth's near-utopian future manipulate George, a highly successful but bored intellectual, into becoming King of Earth by "allowing" him to run a sociological experiment in which he claims to be heir of most of the defunct thrones of Europe and Asia. Then they rewrite the human database with the intention of keeping him on the throne -- with no way of proving his original hoax.

* {{Ghostapo}}: "Thor Meets Captain America", later adapted into comic form as ''The Life-Eaters'', has the Nazis murder almost 17 million people as part of a gigantic Necromantic ritual intended to bring the Norse Gods to life, fighting on the side of Hitler. And it works. The author has said this was an attempt to make Holocaust have some actual sense for the Nazis.

'''Glen David Brin''' (born October 6, 1950) is an American ScienceFiction writer, creator of the Literature/{{Uplift}} universe. He is also the author of a highly amusing (and packed end to end with puns and references) novel called ''Literature/ThePracticeEffect'', and wrote the story for ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin: Defender of the Future''.

* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Explored in ''Kiln People'', in which people download their personalities into short-lived clay golems which they use for work and pleasure. While these golems are regarded as totally expendable, nobody risks his or her real self any more, and for someone to suffer even minor injury is quite a scandal.

* PoweredByAForsakenChild:
** The key to the BigBad's plan in ''Kiln People''.
** In "Thor Meets Captain America", the Nazi Holocaust was an ambitious and successful attempt at industrial-scale necromancy.

Creator/DavidBrin is an American ScienceFiction writer, creator of the Literature/{{Uplift}} universe. He is also the author of a highly amusing (and packed end to end with puns and references) novel called ''Literature/ThePracticeEffect'', and wrote the storyline to ''EccoTheDolphin: Defender of the Future''.

Brin gained a measure of notoriety among ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans for printing a blisteringly critical series of essays regarding that universe's philosophies and messages. These were later compiled into a book with Creator/MattStover called ''[[http://www.davidbrin.com/starwarsontrial.html Star Wars on Trial]]''.

* {{Gendercide}}: In ''Glory Season'', a space ship of feminist colonists goes to a far, far away planet in order to create a perfect society. The women are in charge, and whenever one of them finds their 'niche' in society, they clone themselves over and over. There are men left alive, because the scientists knew that if their society was completely stagnant, eventually something would kill them. So, we have the clone children, or "winter children" who are the majority of the population, and then "summer children" who are born when men who have proven themselves useful get to vent their genetically suppressed lusts during the summer. The summer children are also called "variants", and the protagonist's goal through the book is to find her 'niche' and be allowed to have a clone child.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Explored in ''Kiln People'', in which people download their personalities into short-lived clay golems which they use for work and pleasure. While these golems are regarded as totally expendable, no-one risks their real self any more, and for someone to suffer even minor injury is quite a scandal.

* RuleOfFun: Makes it clear that his Star Wars On Trial articles are primarily for fun even if they're written as SeriousBusiness.
* RomanticismVsEnlightenment: His views fall firmly on the Enlightenment side, with many criticisms of Romanticism both in fiction and real life.

Brin gained a measure of notoriety among ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans for printing a blisteringly critical series of essays regarding that universe's philosophies and messages. These were later compiled into a book with Creator/MattStover called ''[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_on_Trial Star Wars on Trial]]''.

Creator/DavidBrin is an American ScienceFiction writer, creator of the Literature/{{Uplift}} universe. He is also the author of a highly amusing (and packed end to end with puns and references) novel called ''The Practice Effect'', and wrote the storyline to ''EccoTheDolphin: Defender of the Future''.

* {{Aesoptinum}}: "The Giving Plague"

* {{Gendercide}}: In ''Glory Season'', a space ship of feminist colonists goes to a far, far away planet in order to create a perfect society. The women are in charge, and whenever one of them finds their 'niche' in society, they clone themselves over and over. There are men left alive, because the scientists knew that if their society was completely stagnant, eventually something would kill them. So, we have the clone children, or "winter children" who are the majority of the population, and then "summer children" who are born when men who have proven themselves useful get to vent their genetically suppressed lusts during the summer. The summer children are also called "variants", and the protaganists goal through the book is to find her 'niche' and be allowed to have a clone child.

DavidBrin is an American ScienceFiction writer, creator of the Literature/{{Uplift}} universe. He is also the author of a highly amusing (and packed end to end with puns and references) novel called ''The Practice Effect'', and wrote the storyline to ''EccoTheDolphin: Defender of the Future''.

Brin gained a measure of notoriety among StarWars fans for printing a blisteringly critical series of essays regarding that universe's philosophies and messages. These were later compiled into a book with MattStover called [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_on_Trial Star Wars On Trial]].

Brin is probably the best known of the authors sometimes referred to as "the Killer B's", which also includes Creator/GregBear and GregoryBenford. The three are often credited with helping to revitalize [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard SF]] after the rise of {{Cyberpunk}}. They became associated when each wrote one volume of a prequel trilogy to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series.

Brin is probably the best known of the authors often referred to as "the Three B's", which also includes Creator/GregBear and GregoryBenford. The three are often credited with helping to revitalize [[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard SF]] after the rise of {{Cyberpunk}}. They became associated when each wrote one volume of a prequel trilogy to Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/{{Foundation}}'' series.