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With the success of Existence , Orbit are relaunching David Brin's earlier books in the UK to accompany the release of the paperback edition of that novel on 1 November. Also released on 1 November are The Postman and Earth . The Postman is a post-apocalyptic story in which a man chooses to provide hope to the survivors of a nuclear war that the US government still exists and will save them. Forget the horrible Kevin Costner movie (which shares very little in common with the novel beyond the basic premise), The Postman is an enjoyable novel about hope and the morality of lying for the greater good. Earth is Brin's epic SF story about a black hole that appears at the Earth's core and threatens to destroy the planet. Released on 6 December is Uplift , an omnibus of the Uplift Trilogy , consisting of Sundiver , Startide Rising and The Uplift War . The second and third books in this sequence are widely regarded as Brin's best novels, winning him multiple awards. An omn...

Half a century in the future, the human race has survived several brushes with extinction. True AI has been created but - so far - has been benign and helpful. A terrible nuclear incident has taken place, but humanity has endured. As each bullet is dodged, so mankind's chances of survival to a brighter future appear to be growing...until an ancient alien artefact is recovered from Earth orbit which harbours a terrible truth about the nature of the universe. After almost twenty years as an important and relatively prolific voice in the hard SF field, David Brin dropped out of the genre in 2001 after the publication of Kil'n People . He's remained active, penning non-fiction and the occasional short story as well as working in comics and doing consulting work, but no more novels have appeared, either stand-alone or in his Uplift universe. Now he's back with Existence , a self-contained, epic SF novel about mankind, our place in the cosmos, why we seem to be alone and whe...

David Brin is making his long-awaited comeback in June 2012, with the publication of Existence , his first novel in a decade. The cover blurb: Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF. As he did in his New York Times bestselling novel Earth , David Brin takes on the rapidly accelerating rate of change in technology in a very human way. Telepresence. The neural link world wide web, where a flash crowd can gather in an instant if something interesting is happening. We see it today--one man in Pakistan live-tweets the assault on Osama bin Laden, and the whole world turns to watch. A revolution in Egypt is coordinated online. Into the maelstrom of world-wide shared experience drops a game-changer. An alien artifact is plucked from Earth's orbit; an artifact that wants to communicate. News leaks out fast, and the world reacts as it always does: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. Existence is packed with te...