Most of Brin's fiction is categorized as hard science fiction, in that they apply some degree of plausible scientific or technological change as important plot elements. Īs of 2022, Brin was living in San Diego County, California, with his wife and children. His grandfather was drafted into the Russian army and fought in the Russian-Japanese War of 1905. Personal life īrin has Polish Jewish ancestry, from the area around Konin. Īs of 2013, he served on the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Science Fiction. He has participated in discussions at the Philanthropy Roundtable and other groups seeking innovative problem solving approaches. He consults and speaks for a wide variety of groups interested in the future, ranging from Defense Department agencies and the CIA to Procter & Gamble, SAP, Google, and other major corporations. He appears frequently on science- or future-related television shows such as The Universe, Life After People, Alien Encounters, Worlds of Tomorrow. īrin has a side career in public speaking and consultation. He serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD. In 2010, Brin became a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Career įrom 1983 to 1986, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Space Institute, of the University of California, at the San Diego campus in La Jolla. At the University of California, San Diego, he earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering (optics) in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in astronomy in 1981. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astronomy, in 1973. Early life and education īrin was born in Glendale, California, in 1950 to Selma and Herb Brin. His novel The Postman was adapted into a 1997 feature film starring Kevin Costner. He has won the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction.

Evolution of cometary nuclei as influenced by a dust component (1981)

The Practice Effect by David Brin