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David Brin's standard speaking fee has risen for commercial meetings requiring extensive travel: the greater the distance, the more likely it is that he must travel Business Class. The fee is less for events near San Diego or for non-profit groups clearly benefiting the public or kids.

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David Brin appears on onanalytica.com's list as the top individual influencer on Artificial Intelligence in its 2017 survey.

Urban Developer Magazine named David Brin one of four “World’s Best Futurists” — in august company with Kevin Kelly, Michio Kaku and Ray Kurzweil.

OMNI Online listed The Postman as one of ten science fiction books that changed the genre forever.

Brin was recently cited as one (#5) of the 10 "people the AI elite follow on Twitter." (Do you follow @DavidBrin?)

David Brin has been named a Top Quora Writer for 2017 (second year in a row).

Ailien Minds

NEW! from the author of The Transparent Society

Giddy optimists foretell our coming transcendence to a golden age of AI-managed abundance. Glowering doomers predict that vast cyber-minds — cold and unsympathetic — will either crush old style humanity or render us irrelevant.

Meanwhile, geniuses fostering the artificial intelligence boom clutch clichés rooted in our wretched human past, or else cheap sci-fi ... as critics demand state regulation, ‘kill switches,’ or coercive programming. Or to seek a soft-landing with AI by ‘teaching ethical values’ to synthetic minds who see innumerable counterexamples in their training sets, then collude and manipulate for advantage, when given 'agency.'

The lessons and tools we’ll need, in order to achieve a ‘soft-landing’ with Artificial Intelligence, already exist in modern society — in a myriad ways that modern citizens right now interact with each other, and in how we raise our biological children. Tools that we used to build a gradually improving, enlightenment civilization.

But first, shall we stop proclaiming hoary clichés and turn back to examine what already works?
Find out more, or purchase Ailien Minds. (#AmazonCommissionsEarned)

Snowdance

by Allen Steele and Robin Orm Hansen

Adventure, resilience, and the power of unlikely friendships come together in this thrilling new addition to David Brin's Out of Time series!

In the 24th century, Earth's fragile alliances hang in the balance. On the alien planet New Horizon, a pioneering research team goes silent amid a sudden, brutal winter — and rumors of sabotage by unknown intelligences. With advanced tech faltering and tensions rising, Earth's last hope lies in the past.

From colonial New England, 17th-century farm girl Patience Whately has survived war, loss — and worse. From the 19th century, Norwegian snow-sport prodigy Sondre Auverson knows how to navigate any blizzard. And from the summer of 1978, Lee Jarrett is equal parts courage and curiosity, armed with only a harmonica and a stubborn streak.

Joined by two young volunteers from the future, they must brave alien forests, strange snow, and a hostile wilderness with secrets buried deep beneath the drifts. Can five kids from across time out-think an alien world? Would you want to be Yanked out of time, if it meant you could help save the future?
Purchase Snowdance today, or learn more about all the books in the Out of Time series. (#AmazonCommissionsEarned)