Uplift

David Brin has a new novel out, Existence Brin is on a book tour at independent book stores on the west coast and was in the Bay Area saturday, where he spoke at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, having stopped by at SETIcon II earlier. David Brin The book is nice and chunky, and is a medium future novel, somewhat in the spirit of Earth. I am told that the story also includes the beginning of Uplift as a side plot. David is one of my all time favourite authors, and while at Caltech, as a founding member of SPECTRE, the legendary Caltech Science Fiction Club, I hosted him for the first of…