His non-fiction book - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? - deals with secrecy in the modern world. Other HONORS include the American Library Association's Obeler Freedom of Speech Award, the California Library Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, The Potomac Institute's 2015 Navigator Award for public service, and the first annual National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Bard College. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, where he was honored as a 'distinguished alumnus' and where he was thereafter a Visiting Scholar in Residence. In 2013 David Brin helped to establish the Arthur C.

He has served since 2010 on the council of external advisers for NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group (NIAC), which supports the most inventive and potentially ground-breaking new endeavors. His 2012 novel Existence extends this type of daring, near future extrapolation by exploring bio-engineering, intelligence and how to maintain an open-creative civilization.Ī 1998 movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on The Postman.īrin serves on advisory committees dealing with subjects as diverse as national defense and homeland security, astronomy and space exploration, SETI and nanotechnology, future/prediction and philanthropy. His 1989 ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages. His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards.

General Biographyĭavid Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author.

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