David Brin

April 2008:   Iowa Class Battleships and Alaska Class Large Cruisers Conversion Projects 1942-1964: An Illustrated Technical Reference by Wayne Scarpaci - beautiful paintings of fantastical battleship makeovers that never occurred ... but should have!
May 2008:
Battleship YAMATO: Why She Matters Today
June 2008:
The John Boyd Roundtable from Zenpundit et al.
July 2008:
Through Stranger Eyes by Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Brin

Books in print and forthcoming:

• Christianity
  • Misquotes in MISQUOTING JESUS: Why You Can Still Believe by Dillon Burroughs
  • The JESUS FAMILY TOMB Controversy: How the Evidence Falls Short by  Dillon Burroughs
  • THE SHACK: Unauthorized Theological Critique by Tim Challies
• Classics
  • Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Alexander Selkirk by Stevey Bruce
• Computers and Technology
  • A History of Computer Operating Systems: Unix, DOS, Lisa, Macintosh, Windows, Linux by Jon Watson
  • From Geek to Peak by Thomas Myer (Oct. 2008)
• Cool Maps
  • Cool Maps for Curious Kids #2: Afghanistan, an Unauthorized Tour of the Land of A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS and THE KITE RUNNER (Cool Maps for Curious Kids)
  • Cool Maps of Baghdad: the Emerald City and other cities of Iraq
  • Cool Maps of Cuba: An Atlas of History, Population, Resources Before and After Fidel Castro
  • Cool Maps of France: Paris and Beyond
  • Cool Maps of France’s Overseas Territories and Departments
  • Cool Maps of Indonesia: An Unauthorized View of the Land of EAT, PRAY, LOVE
  • Cool Maps of Iran: Persian History, Oil Wealth, Politics, Population, Religion, Satellite, WMD and More
  • Cool Maps of Iraq: History, Oil Wealth, Politics, Population, Religion, Satellite, and More
  • THE WORLD IS FLAT: NOT! Cool New World Maps for Kids
• Cool Science
  • Our Colorful Moon: Beautiful Images to Energize and Delight
  • Our Splendid Sun: Cool Science Images for Curious Kids #1
• Current Affairs
  • Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War by Pepe Escobar
  • Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge by Pepe Escobar
  • Should Barack Obama Be President? DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, AUDACITY OF HOPE, … Obama in ‘08?
• Decisive Battles of the Twenty-First Century
  • 9/11
  • Flight 93
  • Tora Bora
• Designing Organizations that Matter - series edited by Peter Jones of Redesign Research
  • We Tried to Warn You: Innovations in leadership for the learning organization; User Experience, Product Management, Strategy, and the Logic of Failure

  by Peter H. Jones

• Modern Ships
  • CV-F THE FUTURE UK AIRCRAFT CARRIER, by Tim Mahon (2009)
  • CVN-68 NIMITZ, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-69 DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-70 CARL VINSON, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-71 THEODORE ROOSEVELT, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier]
  • CVN-72 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-73 GEORGE WASHINGTON, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-74 JOHN C. STENNIS, U.S. NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER
  • CVN-75 HARRY S. TRUMAN, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-76 RONALD REAGAN, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • CVN-77 GEORGE H. W. BUSH, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier (Colorful Ships #3) (Colorful Ships)
  • CVN-78 GERALD R. FORD, U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
  • DDG-81 WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, U.S. Navy Destroyer]
  • SSN-23 JIMMY CARTER, U.S. Navy Submarine (Seawolf class)
• Modern Weapons
  • X-47 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV)
  • WAR BOTS by David Axe of WarIsBoring.com
    
  • YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE: European UAVs by Tim Mahon
• Napoleonic History
  • Borodino: Why It Matters Today
  • Napoleon In Moscow: Why It Matters Today
  • A MARINE OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD,  translated by Tim Mahon
• Popular Culture
  • Dan Brown — “The Solomon Key” and Beyond: DIGITAL FORTESS, ANGELS & DEMONS, DECEPTION POINT, THE DA VINCI CODE, and more …
  • Harry Potter
    • The Unauthorized Harry Potter Quiz Book: 165 Questions Ranging from The Sorcerer’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows by Graeme Davis
    • A Fandom of Magical Proportions: An Unauthorized History of The Harry Potter Phenomenon by Erin A. Pyne
    • Unauthorized Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows News: Harry Potter Book Seven and Half-Blood Prince Analysis
    • Unofficial “Half-Blood Prince” Update: News and Speculation about Harry Potter Book Six by J. K. Rowling
• Science Fiction
  • Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays by Hugo and Nebula award winner David Brin
• Why [X] Matters Today - a cross-cutting series that includes Borodino: Why It Matters Today and Napoleon In Moscow: Why It Matters Today
• World War II Ships
  • Battleship v. Battleship: Task Force 34’s Moment of Glory by J. Lanham Pearson
  • Battleship YAMATO: Why She Matters Today
  • BB-67 MONTANA, U.S. Navy Battleship: Why She Matters Today
  • In the Shadow of the Battleship: Considering the Cruisers of World War II
  • Iowa Class Battleships and Alaska Class Large Cruisers Conversion Projects 1942-1964: An Illustrated Technical Reference by Wayne Scarpaci

This is one of the better days in the history of Nimble Books. Today we have reached a final agreement with Hugo and Nebula-award winning science fiction author, futurist, and commentator David Brin, and we will be publishing his THROUGH STRANGER EYES, a collection of “Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays” in the U.S. and U.K. We will be working in partnership with Robert Stephenson of the fine SF publisher Altair Australia who be publishing a simultaneous edition for his markets. THROUGH STRANGER EYES will include essays on figures as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien, John Brunner, George Orwell, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Charles Sheffield, Richard Feynman, and Ayn Rand.

More to come …

Review of: Contacting aliens : an illustrated guide to David Brin's uplift universe by Brin, David

Inspired to re-read this because I'm talking about a project with David Brin. Good stuff for Uplift fans. What's bugging me about the Uplift books is simple: is the series finished or not?

wfzimmerman's review: "The title brings back the feeling of exuberant optimism that Brin fans felt at the beginning of this series, which, sadly, fizzled out into something of a disappointment as this trilogy ended up circling around a galactic sump hole, both literally and metaphorically."
Spectra (1995), Hardcover, 514 pages

wfzimmerman's review: "This book has become more and more prescient in the years since its publication. Indispensable."
Perseus Books (1998), Hardcover, 378 pages
tags: privacy, future, science fiction, Internet

wfzimmerman's review: "A treasured first edition of a perfect novel debut by David Brin."
Bantam Book (1980), Paperback
tags: first paperback edition, science fiction

wfzimmerman's review: "An enjoyable story set in a "one-off" universe about clay cloned people. Seems like a transitional book for Brin, who doesn't seem to have really figured out his Next Act after the Uplift Series."
Tor Books (2002), Hardcover, 336 pages
tags: science fiction, first edition, collecting author highlights

Author David Brin Blesses Jim Baen’s Universe, Urges Fans to Help Save Science Fiction
Hugo Award-winning science fiction author David Brin urges fans to subscribe to new online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Jim Baen’s Universe for quality fiction and to help save science fiction.

Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) February 21, 2006 — Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning David Brin ( author of the Uplift series, The Postman, and others) has thrown his reputation behind a new SciFi magazine, Jim Baen’s Universe.

Brin says he’s been unimpressed by other SF&F e-zines, but “this time things are very different.” Brin goes on, “Imagine what such a magazine would have to be like, in order to make you hunger for it, month after month. I think you just envisioned Universe, brought to you by the legendary science fiction impresario, Jim Baen and edited by the inimitable Eric Flint.”

The editor of this commercial venture is none other than Eric Flint (1632 and others). The authors list is a who’s who of modern SF&F (Alan Dean Foster, Cory Doctorow, Catherine Asaro, L. E. Modessitt Jr., and of course, David Brin). A complete list of authors who have been signed up for this venture is at www.baensuniverse.com.

Brin goes on to say, “Certainly, I’ve decided to trust them with some of my latest, first-run stories… and a serialized novel that I’m sure you’ll find to be my funniest ever.”

All of that is great, Brin says, but best of all a major raison d’être for Universe is to provide a place for new authors to get started, and established authors to make a living (another is to revive short SF). The quality of the stories already committed is awesome, and they’re still bringing SF&F giants aboard.

Jim Baen and Eric Flint believe that they can provide an unprecedented value proposition (starting with over 150,000 words per issue, twice a standard novel size), and you only have to look at Baen’s existing DRM-free distribution and Free Library to know that these guys already have been successful at publishing without encryption.

Why is this necessary at all?

Eric Flint explains: “In decades past, it was the size and health of the magazines that allowed new writers a place to be published, gave mid-list writers a place to hone their craft, and allowed very popular and well-established writers to move easily from short fiction to novels and back again as they developed their fascinating and imaginative settings. The range of magazine markets also meant that an exceptional story could still be published even if it was beyond the then-boundaries of acceptable SF.

“Today, that’s almost completely vanished. The economics of modern paper publishing and distribution have hammered the magazines badly, and the decline of short form SF has hurt the field as a whole. When once science fiction and fantasy was a cheap refuge from reality for bright teenagers, now the ticket to entry is a full-length novel — often enough, at hardcover prices.”

“If you want to stand up and be included in the movement to help save science fiction,” says publishing legend Jim Baen, “drop in, subscribe, and join the club! You know you want to!”

Jim Baen’s Universe is published as a bimonthly online magazine beginning in June of 2006, with up to 150,000 words per issue, making it far larger than a typical magazine. The magazine can be read online, or in a variety of downloadable formats, including Acrobat PDF, Mobipocket, Microsoft Reader, RTF, and others.

As with all of Baen Publishing’s electronic offerings, Jim Baen’s Universe is published completely unencrypted and without any Digital Rights Management schemes or copy protection.

This is a tremendous endorsement from one of the best science fiction writers of the 80s and 90s. It’s exciting to read that he’s going to feed his stuff into Baen’s Universe.

It is a bit disconcerting, though, that this good news has to be spun as part of a movement to help save science fiction.

Does it really need saving? Apparently so…