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  Complete Short Fiction

  David Brin

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  Title Page

  About David Brin

  “Jay Kay Klein’s biolog”

  Bibliography: Novels

  Bibliography: Serials

  Bibliography: Chapbooks

  Bibliography: Collections

  Bibliography: Omnibus

  Bibliography: Nonfiction

  Short Fiction Bibliography: chronological

  Short Fiction Bibliography: alphabetical

  Fiction Series

  Epigraph

  1981

  Just a Hint

  The Tides of Kithrup

  The Loom of Thessaly

  1982

  Co-Existence

  The Postman

  1983

  Tank-Farm Dynamo

  1984

  The Crystal Spheres

  Cyclops

  The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf

  1985

  The Warm Space

  1986

  Senses Three and Six

  Toujours Voir

  A Stage of Memory

  Lungfish

  Thor Meets Captain America

  1987

  Bubbles

  1988

  The Giving Plague

  1989

  Dr. Pak’s Preschool

  Shhhh

  Privacy

  Ambiguity

  1990

  Piecework

  The Diplomacy Guild

  Ice Pilot

  Peacekeeper

  1991

  What Continues, What Fails . . .

  1992

  Those Eyes

  Genji

  1993

  Detritus Affected

  1994

  NatuLife™

  Bonding to Genji

  The Other Side of the Hill

  1996

  Fortitude

  An Ever-Reddening Glow

  Paris Conquers All

  1998

  Civilization

  Life in the Extreme

  Stones of Significance

  1999

  Temptation

  2000

  Reality Check

  2003

  News from 2025: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5

  A Professor at Harvard

  2005

  Mars Opposition

  2006

  Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon’s Crystal Forests

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 1)

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 2)

  Ickies in Mirrorshades

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 3)

  Gawkers

  Sky Horizon

  2007

  I Could’ve Done Better

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 4)

  2008

  The Smartest Mob . . .

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 5)

  Shoresteading (Part One)

  Shoresteading (Part Two)

  2009

  Gorilla My Dreams

  2010

  Shoresteading (revised version)

  2013

  The Heavy Generation

  The Log

  Insistence of Vision

  2014

  The Avalon Missions

  Latecomers

  Transition Generation

  Chrysalis

  2015

  The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss

  The Tell

  2016

  71

  News From 2035: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5

  The Logs

  Avalon Probes

  Six-Word Tales

  2017

  High Awareness

  2020

  “Shhhh . . .”

  2021

  The Escape: A Confrontation in Four Scenes

  Glen David Brin was born on October 6, 1950 in Glendale, California, in 1950 to Selma and Herb Brin. Brin has Polish Jewish ancestry, from the area around Konin. His grandfather was drafted into the Russian army and fought in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.

  Brin graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in astronomy, in 1973. 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.

  From 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. In 2010, Brin became a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD. He serves on the advisory board of NASA’s Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies.

  As of 2013, he served on the Board of Advisors for the Museum of Science Fiction.

  David Brin lives in San Diego County, California, with his wife and children.

  Jay Kay Klein’s

  biolog

  David Brin

  If the Analog contributors profiled Where sound interesting, it’s because they are. David Brin is one of the “hard science” writers who—along with their counterweights, the “social engineers”—have formed the cutting edge of modern science fiction in this magazine. When intense demands on his time while pursuing a rigorous undergraduate degree at Caltech in Astronomy caused Dave to suspend all science fiction reading, he found himself writing it instead. Sundiver, a first novel and first submission, turned into a first sale. It was published by Bantam in 1980, the same year Dave received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Space Science from UC San Diego.

  Dave worked as an engineer for four years at Hughes Aircraft and remains a consultant for the California Space Institute, studying variations on space station design and shuttle enhancements. Another slice of his time is devoted to lecturing at San Diego State University. Writing remains a part-time occupation, evidenced by his having turned out “only” three novels so far. A second story submission, “The Tides of Kithrup,” appeared as a cover-story novelette in the May 25, 1981, Analog. In greatly expanded form, it will be published about the time you’re reading this by Bantam as Startide Rising. And early next year, Bantam will be bringing out The Practice Effect.

  Now that he has a little more time—even with some of it spent backpacking in the Great West—Dave thinks he will be able to write more science fiction. Last year he was a nominee at the world science fiction convention for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Writer. At this year’s convention “The Postman,” which appeared in Analog’s sister publication, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, was a nominee for a Hugo Award.

  To Dave, “science” is a major character in a well-wrought story, though not necessarily the most important item where human beings are involved. He views science fiction as humanity’s think tank in a time of rapid change. His hope is that science fiction will be read by people who otherwise would not know much about science or think ahead to what can happen. And in particular, there may be political or business leaders who, faced with a crisis, might think about some similar problem they’d encountered in a story. If in that way some typical dumb “solution” of the type we’ve seen far too often in the past can be avoided in the future, then Dave feels time spent on science fiction will have paid for itself a thousand times over.

  Originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1983

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NOVELS

  Sundiver (1980)

  Startide Rising (1983)

  The Practice Effect (1984)

  The Postman (1985)

  Heart of the Comet (1986)

  The Uplift War (1987)

  Earth (1990)

  Glory Season (1993)

  Brightness Reef (1995)

  Infinity’s Shore (1996)

  Heaven’s Reach (1998)

  Foundation’s Triumph (1999)

  Kiln People (2002)

  Kil’n People (2002)

  Existence (2012)

  The Ancient Ones (2020)

  Castaways of New Mojave (2021)

  Colony High (20210)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  SERIALS

  The Ancient Ones, Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2006-February 2008

  Shoresteading, Jim Baen’s Universe, October-December 2008

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHAPBOOKS

  Dr. Pak’s Preschool (1989)

  Piecework (1991)

  The Life Eaters (2003)

  Sky Horizon (2007)

  Reality Check (2011)

  The Giving Plague (2012)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  COLLECTIONS

  The River of Time (1986)

  Otherness (1994)

  Tomorrow Happens (2003)

  Insistence of Vision (2016)

  The Best of David Brin (2021)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  OMNIBUS

  Earthclan (1987)

  Uplift: The Complete Original Trilogy (2012)

  Exiles: The Uplift Storm Trilogy (2013)

  The Uplift Storm Trilogy (2021)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  NONFICTION

  Extraterrestrial Civilization (1989)


>   The Transparent Society (1998)

  Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin’s Uplift Universe (2002)

  King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape (2005)

  Through Stranger Eyes: Reviews, Introductions, Tributes & Iconoclastic Essays (2008)

  Polemical Judo (2019)

  SHORT FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

  CHRONOLOGICAL

  1981

  Just a Hint, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 27, 1981

  The Tides of Kithrup, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 25, 1981

  The Loom of Thessaly, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, November 23, 1981

  1982

  Co-Existence, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982

  The Postman, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, November 1982

  1983

  Tank-Farm Dynamo, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1983

  1984

  The Crystal Spheres, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1984

  Cyclops, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1984

  The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf, Isaac Asimov’s Tomorrow’s Voices, April 1984

  1985

  The Warm Space, Far Frontiers, January 1985

  1986

  Senses Three and Six, The River of Time, June 1986

  Toujours Voir, The River of Time, June 1986

  A Stage of Memory, The River of Time, June 1986

  Lungfish, The River of Time, June 1986

  Thor Meets Captain America, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1986

  1987

  Bubbles, The Universe, November 1987

  1988

  The Giving Plague, Interzone, Spring 1988

  1989

  Dr. Pak’s Preschool, Cheap Street, April 1989

  Shhhh, Amazing Stories, May 1989

  Privacy, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1989

  Ambiguity, The Microverse, November 1989

  1990

  Piecework, Interzone, January/February, January 1990

  The Diplomacy Guild, Amazing Stories, March 1990

  Ice Pilot, Project Solar Sail, April 1990

  Peacekeeper, Aboriginal Science Fiction, March/April, March 1990

  1991

  What Continues, What Fails . . . , Interzone, December 1991

  1992

  Those Eyes, Fenix #2, 1992

  Genji, Murasaki, May 1992

  1993

  Detritus Affected, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1993

  1994

  NatuLife™, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1994

  Bonding to Genji, Otherness, June 1994

  The Other Side of the Hill, Science Fiction Age, November 1994

  1996

  Fortitude, Science Fiction Age, January 1996

  An Ever-Reddening Glow, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1996

  Paris Conquers All, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1996

  1998

  Civilization, Heaven’s Reach, June 1998

  Life in the Extreme, Popular Science, August 1998

  Stones of Significance, Lamps on the Brow, July 1998

  1999

  Temptation, Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, May 1999

  2000

  Reality Check, Nature, March 16, 2000

  2003

  News from 2025: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5, Tomorrow Happens, February 2003

  A Professor at Harvard, Tomorrow Happens, February 2003

  2005

  Mars Opposition, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January/February, January 2005

  2006

  Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon’s Crystal Forests, Space Cadets, 2006

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 1), Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2006

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 2), Jim Baen’s Universe, August 2006

  Ickies in Mirrorshades, This is My Funniest: Leading Science Fiction Writers Present Their Funniest Stories Ever, October 2006

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 3), Jim Baen’s Universe, December 2006

  2007

  I Could’ve Done Better, Jim Baen’s Universe, February 2007

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 4), Jim Baen’s Universe, April 2007

  Gawkers, Nippon2007 Souvenir Book, August 2007

  Sky Horizon, Sky Horizon, August 2007

  2008

  The Smartest Mob, Jim Baen’s Universe, February 2008

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 5), Jim Baen’s Universe, February 2008

  Shoresteading (Part One), Jim Baen’s Universe, October 2008

  Shoresteading (Part Two), Jim Baen’s Universe, December 2008

  2009

  Gorilla My Dreams, Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2009

  2010

  Shoresteading (revised version), Gateways, July 2010

  2013

  The Heavy Generation, Starship Century, August 2013

  The Log, Shadows of the New Sun, August 2013

  Insistence of Vision, Twelve Tomorrows, October 2013

  2014

  The Avalon Missions, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2014

  Latecomers, Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds, May 2014

  Transition Generation, Hieroglyph, September 2014

  Chrysalis, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2014

  2015

  The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss, Old Venus, March 2015

  The Tell, Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft, November 2015

  2016

  71, Baen Books: Free Stories 2016, 2016

  News from 2035: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5, Insistence of Vision, March 2016

  The Logs, Insistence of Vision, March 2016

  Avalon Probes, Insistence of Vision, March 2016

  Six-Word Tales, Insistence of Vision, March 2016

  2017

  High Awareness, Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere, September 2017

  2020

  “Shhhh . . .”, Shapers of Worlds, September 2020

  2021

  The Escape: A Confrontation in Four Scenes, The Best of David Brin, July 2021

  SHORT FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY

  ALPHABETICAL

  #

  71, Baen Books: Free Stories 2016, 2016

  A

  A Professor at Harvard, Tomorrow Happens, February 2003

  A Stage of Memory, The River of Time, June 1986

  Ambiguity, The Microverse, November 1989

  An Ever-Reddening Glow, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1996

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 1), Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2006

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 2), Jim Baen’s Universe, August 2006

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 3), Jim Baen’s Universe, December 2006

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 4), Jim Baen’s Universe, April 2007

  The Ancient Ones (Episode 5), Jim Baen’s Universe, February 2008

  The Avalon Missions, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2014

  Avalon Probes, Insistence of Vision, March 2016

  B

  Bonding to Genji, Otherness, June 1994

  Bubbles, The Universe, November 1987

  C

  Chrysalis, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2014

  Civilization, Heaven’s Reach, June 1998

  Co-Existence, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, May 1982

  The Crystal Spheres, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1984

  Cyclops, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1984

  D

  Detritus Affected, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1993

  The Diplomacy Guild, Amazing Stories, March 1990

  Dr. Pak’s Preschool, Cheap Street, April 1989

  E

  Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon’s Crystal Forests, Space Cadets, 2006

  The Escape: A Confrontation in Four Scenes, The Best of David Brin, July 2021

  F

  Fortitude, Science Fiction Age, January 1996

  The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf, Isaac Asimov’s Tomorrow’s Voices, April 1984

  G

  Gawkers, Nippon2007 Souvenir Book, August 2007

  Genji, Murasaki, May 1992

  The Giving Plague, Interzone, Spring 1988

  Gorilla My Dreams, Jim Baen’s Universe, June 2009

  H

  The Heavy Generation, Starship Century, August 2013

  High Awareness, Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere, September 2017

  I

  I Could’ve Done Better, Jim Baen’s Universe, February 2007