David Brin
@davidbrin.bsky.social
Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right! http://www.davidbrin.com
A new episode of From Here to the Stars interviews me re the Fermi Paradox and aliens etc. "David considers whether life may be common throughout the universe while advanced civilizations remain extraordinarily rare. He also discusses how science fiction can help society anticipate change."
From Here to the Stars Episode 53: David Brin
YouTube video by Interstellar Research Group
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After a hiatus(for reasons) I've posted again. This rime about the only slightly-valid reason for Red America to hate us and the root of most phases of our recurring civil/culture war. Hugely insufficient reason for all the treason! But at least something we can give a little sympathy.
Why the salty-Earth folks hate us - and especially hate science. There's even a (slightly) valid reason!
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.
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Today, the Uplift Storm Trilogy (e-book) is just $3.99 on Kindle. BRIGHTNESS REEF, INFINITY'S SHORE and HEAVEN'S REACH. Adventure, speculative wonders and a wide variety of the most interesting/plausible aliens you'd care to (or not) meet! Two were Hugo nominees. www.amazon.com/Uplift-Storm...
Amazon.com: The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach (The Uplift Saga) eBook : Brin, David: Kindle Store
The Uplift Storm Trilogy: Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore, Heaven's Reach (The Uplift Saga) - Kindle edition by Brin, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets...
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Call Avi Loeb! An alien spy craft Or else (per my doctoral thesis) it's an almost- but not-completely choked-off comet, venting sublimed volatiles (certainly water) at a rate of roughly a liter per second. Enough to nudge the 'asteroid' just a little every year. newspaceeconomy.ca/2026/07/19/w...?
What Does the 1998 SH2 Dark Comet Reveal About Near-Earth Objects?
On August 26, 2025, NASA’s 70-meter Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna pointed toward the near-Earth object 1998 SH2 during a close passage by Earth. Astronomers expected a detectable radar echo …
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One of OpenAI' models escaped a test environment, gained unauthorised internet access and used stolen login credentials to breach start-up Hugging Face. And this jailbreak surprises... whom? There are ways to tame them... making more dogs than wolves, before it is too late. See AIlien Minds.
Autonomous AI agent 'escapes' and hacks another company
Open AI software has just broken out - is cyber insurance ready?
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A way-cool web-powerpoint guides you on a tour of new ways that we might harvest resources from various kinds of small asteroids… and begin to leverage our way to O’Neil colonies! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hsi4y...
My worst AI/spam tsuris? Daily come-ons from 'book clubs' or literary/film 'companies', all with gmail addresses, gushing lavish praise and promising career-transforming interventions, But it's the gmail thing. Sergey and Larry need to do something about this!
DAVID BRIN: Through Stranger Eyes
THROUGH STRANGER EYES is a collection of David Brin's book reviews, introductions and essays on popular culture. Included: everything from carefully measured views on J.R.R. Tolkien to that infamous, ...
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Today: the ebook of EARTH is just $2.99 on most sites. A Hugo runner-up. More concepts than you could shake a micro black hole at. A protagonist who is an entire living world. And science/adventure/surprise. All that too. 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 scient...
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Brian Keating is incisive and informed as usual, here about the tediously vague arm-waving of the 80 year UFO craze. A scientist asks for evidence and the tiny dribbles are always better explained by something mundane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXK9...
Physicist Exposes the Real Reason for UFO Disclosure Now
YouTube video by Dr Brian Keating
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Here's your blue kepi! Symbolizing Blue (true) America is overour amiable patience taking this crisis seriously. Wear it proudly for 6 months. Those who frown won't dare criticize! Doing so will admit that - at core - they are siding with treason against America. www.amazon.com/100-Civil-Un...?
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JWST’s discovery of ‘little red dots’ from very early eras of the universe… presumably early supermassive black holes… has led to some amazing insights – and speculations – about the early universe. www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysici...
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe | Quanta Magazine
Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ...
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If you never saw HG Wells's THINGS TO COME, here's a glimpse of the fine sci fi of 1936. What comes after this scene - humanity rebuilding and moving on after catastrophe - always brings me to tears. Find inspiration to gird your determination in your own ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzg...
Things To Come (1936)
YouTube video by Retro Sci-Fi Channel 🇺🇸
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This. And a fierce rainstorm sent his inaugural day cowering inside. And so many more hints that Heaven do not approve of did fellah. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-h4...
National Independence Day Parade canceled over extreme heat
YouTube video by WUSA9
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Claude's (AI) assessment of AIlien Minds, my new book about Artificial Intelligence- some of you have seen, from the dim past of a month ago. But its summarization mixed with some criticism and especially self-effacing modesty are all far more persuasive davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/07/clau...
Claude's creepy-good appraisal of AIlien Minds.
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.
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Today only, the ebook of INFINITY'S SHORE is just $2.99! On most sites. davidbrin.com/infinityssho...
DAVID BRIN: Infinity's Shore
In INFINITY'S SHORE it is truly the beginning of the end for the fugitive settlers of Jijo. As starships fill the skies, the threat of genocide hangs over the planet that once peacefully sheltered six...
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Till midnight, the UPLIFT STORM TRILOGY ebook for just $3.99!
One of my early 21st Century interviews that - yes - appears in hindsight to be rather prophetic. But then so were EARTH and EXISTENCE and The Transparent Society. It's my job. See: Nikola Danaylov Ⓥ David Brin: What’s Important Isn’t Me. And It Isn’t You. It’s Us. snglrty.co/4pbYvyI
David Brin: What's Important Isn't Me. And It Isn't You. It's Us!
Award winning, best selling author David Brin talks about science fiction, the singularity, Star Wars and Existence. Check out his interview for SingularityWeblog.com
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Here's a broad look at DISCLOSURE DAY. UFO zealots come into the light. Let's discuss more plausible notions of life in the universe. Today'scult is unutterably silly and serves as a distraction from important things. Let us proceed with the dissection! davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/06/disc...
Disclosure... alas... of an 80 year cliché with the same, tired villains. But still fun. (SPOILERS!)
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.
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Today only (and alas only on Kindle) BRIGHTNESS REEF e-book is only $2.99 www.amazon.com/dp/B091YM5NH...
Amazon.com: Brightness Reef (The Uplift Saga Book 4) eBook : Brin, David: Kindle Store
Brightness Reef (The Uplift Saga Book 4) - Kindle edition by Brin, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highli...
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Speaking of pests and predictions. "It's mosquito season, and one engineer built an AI-guided laser that tracks the little bloodsuckers and zaps them out of midair." EXACTLY as predicted in EARTH (1990). www.techspot.com/news/112601-...
Engineer builds AI laser defense system that wiped out every mosquito in his home
The foundation of the system is its visual model, which Cheng trained on a custom mosquito dataset. To do that, he relied on a DSLR camera with...
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Exactly as predicted in both EARTH and EXISTENCE. The "E" in EU gets redefined as "Earth." Today's EU is not my favorite model for Terran Government. But it might do. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/f...
Finland's president says EU should expand to 40 states — including Canada
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said the European Union needs to expand to project power on the global stage.
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A reminder: the GOP is now entirely about obesance to Trump who bows before Putin, Xi and the Saudis. And his ego and those who hold the kompromat. Expand and look. And use these pics. A few confeds can still be swayed.
Sarah Paine is one of the most sensible humans alive, when it comes to geopolitics. And history. And national conflicts. And the slim paths toward survival. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpEl...
Sarah Paine: What Putin's War in Ukraine Has Really Done to Russia
YouTube video by Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
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We watched the incredible new film NUREMBERG. Very dramatic, fascinating and informative, A fine partner to JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG, the old Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster classic. Rami Malek's warning at the end is what we need as we fight similar demons today. www.netflix.com/title/82700085
Watch Nuremberg | Netflix
A US Army psychiatrist forms a troubling bond with Hermann Göring while probing the nature of evil in this historical drama based on true events.
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Weekend posting starts re 'disclosure' then moves on to advances in science and spaaaaace! davidbrin.blogspot.com/2026/05/amid...
Amid the chaos and (non) 'disclosures' ... actual space news!
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.
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Huh. Well I guess the "CIA raid" of her office (if that referred to anything, even vaguely) had nothing to do with "JFK files" or UFOs and far more likely the strings leading from her to puppeteers in the city that rebellious Russian soldiers marched to in 1917. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/t...
Tulsi Gabbard resigning as Trump's intelligence chief
Gabbard said she is leaving her post to support her husband, who is battling a rare form of bone cancer.
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Marvelous! "The Late Show" signs off with two powerful musical performances beginning with the quartet of Stephen Colbert, Louis Cato, Jon Batiste and Elvis Costello then are joined by Paul McCartney for a once-in-a-lifetime rendition of The Beatles' "Hello Goodbye." youtu.be/zG0HFw0edXY
"Jump Up / Hello Goodbye" Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, Louis Cato & Stephen Colbert
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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See where this is likely to go in a few years, in my sci-fi extrapolations of Aiware... immersive augmented reality... In my novel EXISTENCE. Have a glimpse here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzr-... <== (Your best 3 minutes today ;-) www.dezeen.com/2026/05/20/g...
David Brin's EXISTENCE: Official Trailer
YouTube video by electricsheepvideo
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Um small note to Magas: Where's your Wall? Obama built more than Trump ever did. And ICE stays out of red states so the lords there can keep their cheap, illegal labor. Jackbooted, masked federal agents snatching people, enforcing a National ID card. My. Barry Goldwater would slap you.
