David Brin fans can rejoice: It's been nearly a decade since his last novel, Tomorrow Happens, but the critically acclaimed science fiction writer is now set to release his much anticipated book, Existence, on June 21st.
Brin, the author of such hard SF works as Kiln People, The Postman (which was adapted into a major motion picture), and the Uplift series of books, is renowned for not just his ability to weave an entertaining sci-fi yarn, but for his remarkable prescience as well. He has a excellent track record when it comes to making predictions, and has long speculated about such things as global warming, cyberwarfare and the rise of the surveillance state.
With his new novel, Brin once again sets his sights on the near-future. Set in the 2050s, Existence addresses a wide array of social, environmental, and cosmic-scale issues. The book features a world in which squatters have taken over abandoned beach-front mansions, and where the rich chill out in orbit, inside their space-yachts. But it's also a stratified world, one that's being pulled apart by not just economic and environmental stresses, but by the very potential for technology to alter the human condition itself. And then humanity makes first contact with extraterrestrials.
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