Check out some excellent, or just plain fun, 'David Brin Sites' set up by devoted (or critical!) fans. If you know another Brin site worth mentioning, email me so I can let people know.
For an extensive review of all my books -- by a true (and sagacious) fan -- see The Templeton Gate.
Come explore one of the most active and intelligent internet discussion groups of all time -- Brin-L.org, home of the famed "Brin-L list," where cutting edge issues get taken on by truly open minds.
The Sloan3D online store sells shirts, hats, mugs, posters, and other merchandise inspired by the Uplift novels, Kiln People, and my other science fiction works. The merchandise is illustrated by Steve Sloan, using a variety of 2D and 3D techniques.
The Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia lives! While I "officially" have no comment... and I reserve ALL copyrights to my works and all of their creative contents and universes/characters/events... I nevertheless smile at fan efforts to extend and analyze and have fun with my universe, for pure enjoyment and not profit. The best of these extensions was Trent Shipley's Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia, a copious amount of additional material about the Uplift Universe, some of it canonical and some -- well -- wonderfully inventive. (A lot of the material was borrowed from earlier web sites created by Stewart Blandón and Tim Robinson.) As of now the Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia has been transferred into the enthusiastic hands of Matt Lundstrom. The new version is available here. This is a collaborative open-source project. Matt welcomes participation by anyone who feels a passion for this universe. Above all, enjoy.
A comprehensive (if unofficial) time-line and breakdown of Brightness Reef (along with the rest of the Uplift Storm Trilogy) has been created by archivist Alberto Monteiro, who also explains the calendar units and many other interesting facts about planet Jijo.
Steve Sloan has created another excellent Brin-L entry site.
AllSciFi.com features a page on me, with reviews of my novels and a discussion board.
Brett Coster's Scroll of the Web tells the "full if expurgated history of the DB Sewing Circle (also known as 'those Sew-n-Sews'). This sewing circle formed to dedicate a gift to Science Fiction author David Brin. Carried away by modern technology, we organized a four-nation, three-continent clandestine group based on the Brin-L mailing list."
Take a look at The Works of David Brin fan site.
Another fan has posted a David Brin page on his site.
A web ring connects fans of David Brin with each other and to sites of interest.
This essay by Sera Lewis features an unusual take on Kiln People.
Reviews and descriptions of my work appear at Colin Glassey's Web Site.
A web site featuring The Postman seeks to provide an instructor's guide to using the movie and my novel to introduce the novel's main themes-- citizenship, courage and responsibility.
J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, posted a review of The Transparent Society.
In WebSeitzWiki, Bill Seitz discusses Earth's "web-like information technology."
Read an article discussing the "Otherness Meme" at MeatballWiki.
Fan Jillian discusses my Uplift books on her Library of Gothos website.
Educators may be interested in this site: the Reading for the Future website, which describes itself as a volunteer organization whose aim is to help young people develop a love of reading and intellectual adventure through the vehicle of science fiction, fantasy and other speculative fiction.
Steve Sloan has posted my author photographs.
If you read Italian, welcome to a fan site called "Guida a David Brin," posted by Silvio Sosio.
Slowly, some sites in academia are becoming reputable centers for scholarship of and about science fiction. The Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside, has long been such a center of excellence. So has the English Department at the University of Kansas, led by the eminent author and professor, James Gunn. Lately the Merrill Collection at the University of Toronto has joined the ranks of august SF-adept institutions and strong efforts have taken place at Temple University. At the University of Liverpool, Andy Sawyer has made tremendous efforts for the Science Fiction Foundation.
I have made all of these sites places where I regularly donate and deposit copies of my works -- including all foreign editions -- as a small way to help these institutions create useful collections. Now comes word that another of my longtime depositories -- Georgia Tech -- has their SF collection website up and running. I urge my fellow authors -- and anyone interested in helping the field get the respect it deserves -- to help these worthy efforts any way they can.
For some other excellent academic SF links, see the list Georgia Tech put up at their site.
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