David Brin
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Brin at an Association of Computing Machinery conference in 2005
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October 6, 1950 Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, NASA consultant |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable works | Startide Rising, The Postman, Earth, "Existence", "The Transparent Society" |
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Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist 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.
Brin was born in Glendale, California in 1950. His Jewish ancestors came from Poland, from the area around Konin. His grandfather was drafted into the Russian army and fought in the Russian-Japanese War of 1905.
In 1973, Brin graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astrophysics. At the University of California, San Diego, he earned a Master of Science in applied physics in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in space science in 1981.
Brin is a 2010 fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD). He serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies.
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