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29. September 1997

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I've tried to read David Brin books before and found them either too subtle for me, or just plain boring. Though, I have read the blurbs on many of his books, and always thought he had some surprising ideas -- as if he'd been practicing those lateral-thinking puzzles for years. I was quite surprised to find a great collection of very provocative ideas that kept me interested all the way through. From a Japanese culture where the ultimate work-ethic means babies are tutored within the womb and are hooked up to computers at their birth, to "organic humans" discovering themselves useful again after years of uselessness in a culture and society of ultimate "cryo-mechanical humans": I was impressed. He even touches on theories of the existence of the entire universe(s) in a highly entertaining way. My recommendation is forget his longer (and long-winded) novels and devour his short-fiction. The ideas/stories in this collection are crystalised and involving. This one may actually cause me to look more closely at his other novels...

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rob@riverweb.co.uk

Humanitarian view of science, scientific view of humanity

2. November 1997

Format: Taschenbuch

The ideas flow freely, however there is a central theme. DB obviously had babies in mind when writing / compiling this book!
What makes this collection different is his essays on 'otherness', which I sometimes found more stimulating than the stories that they separate.
His last essay, however, I found off beam. The conjectures he offers didn't quite hit the mark, and I felt they needed more development - as Mr Brin would ordinarily do to his short fiction.

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scifi shorts with lectures in between

4. März 2014 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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I normally enjoy David Brin. His ideas are pretty good. I do enjoy him when he speaks. But this book..well....It just bored me. Short scifi stories need to be able to grab you fast, get you into the characters then maybe give the reader a bit of a twist or leave you awestruck at the end. Hopefully leaving you in deep contemplation. Not one story in this book did any of that for me. They all ended with out my even caring about what just happened. The only thing I found entertaining were the lectures given by Brin in between some of the shorts. Just pass on this one. Nothing to see here....sadly

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Thought Provoking Read

2. Januar 2016 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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This book is a mix of entertaining short stories and deeply philosophical essays. It is not a book too put down after reading and forget. This book invites you to think and to examine those thoughts, comparing them to the author's insight.

A book well worth reading again and again!

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It was ok

2. März 2019 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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But I m a little full of DAvid Brian now that I m finished. No desire to buy the next David Brian anything

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kerry

reference and have bought some to give as presents

20. August 2016 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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science fiction, science fact and science prediction, I have this book as reference and have bought some to give as presents.

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brin never disappoints

23. Juni 2013 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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great read, felt like a seminar class discovering and debating new paradigm. liked the structure of short short stories, narrative like discussion. you can pick it up and read from almost anywhere but from the beginning to the end works like a lecture series that you want to keep coming back to. Sci-fi is a great imaginary world that's now eerily realistic

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