![]() ![]() In The Giving Plague, a virus, transmitted by blood donation, begins to change humanity. It is a novel brimming with ideas about the future, and how humanity will - must - adapt to it. This is a big book from David Brin, and everyone is going to be talking about it. From Hugo and Nebula winning author David Brin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays about the near and distant future, as humans and other intelligences encounter the secrets of the cosmos - and of their own existence. News leaks out fast, and the world reacts as it always does: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence.Įxistence is packed with tension, with characters we care about in danger that seems unstoppable. ![]() An alien artifact is plucked from Earth's orbit an artifact that wants to communicate. Into the maelstrom of world-wide shared experience drops a game-changer. We see it today - one man in Pakistan live-tweets the assault on Osama bin Laden, and the whole world turns to watch. A revolution in Egypt is coordinated online. ![]() The neural link world wide web, where a flash crowd can gather in an instant if something interesting is happening. 00:42:12 - David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. ![]() Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SFĪs he did in his New York Times bestselling novel Earth, David Brin takes on the rapidly accelerating rate of change in technology in a very human way. ![]()
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