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    Insistence of Vision: Stories

    By David Brin

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    A collection of mind-bending science fiction stories from the “thoughtful and highly original” New York Times bestselling author (Los Angeles Daily News).
     
    Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows from the keen eye and colorful pen of speculative fiction master David Brin, and featuring guest appearances by Gregory Benford, Jules Verne, and Galileo.
     
    Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows? Suppose, amid lavish success, we gain the superpower to fly! Will we even appreciate it . . . or will we find new reasons to complain? In “Mars Opposition,” you’ll experience an alien invasion like no other, confronting humanity with a stark and terrible choice . . . followed by several more tales of conquest from beyond, each of them wildly different. On the other hand, might fantastically potent new beings emerge out of ourselves, as revealed in “Chrysalis?” “Stones of Significance” takes you beyond the very singularity in pondering what could happen after humans are like gods. And “Reality Check” asks one of you readers—just one of you—to wake up! Tomorrow awaits. We can face it and prevail. So long as our stance is brave.
     
    Praise for David Brin
     
    “David Brin excels at the essential craft of the page turning, which is to devise an elegantly knotted plot that yields a richly variegated succession of high-impact adventures undergone by an array of believably heroic characters.”—Entertainment Weekly

    “Brin writes brilliantly conceived, intellectually supercharged novels.”—The Sacramento Bee
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMar 22, 2016
    ISBN9781943486823
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    Insistence of Vision: Stories
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    David Brin

    David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.

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