Order of David Brin Books

Dr. David Brin is an American science fiction author known for his novels and stories, particularly as the creator of the Uplift universe. He earned a B.S. in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology, followed by an M.S. in applied physics and a Ph.D. in space science from the University of California, San Diego. As a writer of hard science fiction, his narratives are often grounded in plausibility, leading to a website dedicated to tracking his predictions. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Hugo, Locus, Campbell, and Nebula awards. David resides in Southern California with his wife and children. He published his first novel, Sundiver, in 1980, marking the beginning of the Uplift universe. Below is a list of David Brin’s books in the order of their original release:

David Brin became a published novelist in 1980 with the novel Sundiver. Below is a list of David Brin's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Smart Pop Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
King Kong Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous Ape!	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Uplift Saga Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Sundiver	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Startide Rising	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Uplift War	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Brightness Reef	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Infinity's Shore	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Heaven's Reach	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gorilla, My Dreams	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Uplift Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Contacting Aliens	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of David Brin's High Horizon Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Colony High	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Castaways of New Mojave (With: Jeff Carlson)	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Out Of Time Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Yanked! (With: Nancy Kress)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tiger in the Sky (With: Sheila Finch)	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Game of Worlds	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Archimedes Gambit (By: Patrick Freivald)	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Boondoggle (With: Tom Easton,Torion Oey)	(2025)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Kiln Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Kiln People / Kil'n People	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kil'n Time	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Colony High Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Sky Horizon	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Practice Effect	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Postman	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Heart of the Comet	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Earth	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Glory Season	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Existence	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Insistence of Vision	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ancient Ones	(2020)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Dr. Pak's Preschool	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Piecework	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Crystal Spheres	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Loom of Thessaly	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Stones of Significance	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Thor Meets Captain America	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Reality Check	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Giving Plague	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tank Farm Dynamo	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The River of Time	(1986)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Otherness	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tomorrow Happens	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best of David Brin	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Life Eaters	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Star Trek: The Next Generation Graphic Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Forgiveness	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Gorn Crisis (By: Kevin J. Anderson)	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of David Brin Game Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Tribes	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Transparent Society	(1987)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Extraterrestrial Civilization	(1989)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Through Stranger Eyes	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Dark Side	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
George Orwell and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lord of the Rings	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Matrix	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Disputation Arenas	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Polemical Judo	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Second Foundation Trilogy Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Foundation's Fear (By: Gregory Benford)	(1997)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Foundation and Chaos (By: Greg Bear)	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Foundation's Triumph	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Ring of Fire Anthology Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Ring of Fire I (By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Dave Freer,K.D. Wentworth,S.L. Viehl,Mike Turner)	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1634: The Ram Rebellion (By: Eric Flint,Virginia DeMarce)	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ring of Fire II (By: Eric Flint,Dave Freer,K.D. Wentworth,Andrew Dennis,David Carrico)	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1635: The Tangled Web (By: Eric Flint,Virginia DeMarce)	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ring of Fire III (By: Mercedes Lackey,Eric Flint,Charles E. Gannon)	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1635: Music and Murder (By: David Carrico)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1636: Seas of Fortune (By: Iver P. Cooper)	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1636: The Barbie Consortium (By: Gorg Huff,Paula Goodlett)	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ring of Fire IV (With: Eric Flint,Charles E. Gannon,Virginia DeMarce,David Carrico)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1635: The Wars for the Rhine (By: Anette Pedersen)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1636: Flight of the Nightingale (By: David Carrico)	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
1637: The Coast of Chaos (By: Eric Flint,Gorg Huff,Paula Goodlett)	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015 (With: Joe R. Lansdale,Brendan DuBois,David Weber,David Drake,Seth Dickinson,Brian Dolton,Sarah Pinsker,Brad R. Torgersen,Hank Davis,David Afsharirad,Claudine Griggs,Andrea M. Pawley,Eric Leif Davin)	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Mississippi Review 47 / 48	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Amazing Stories, March 1990	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tomorrow's Voices	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murasaki	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Williamson Effect	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Far Horizons	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Year's Best SF 4	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Age of Wonders: Tales from the Near Future	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
I Have This Nifty Idea	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Live Without a Net	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Seven Seasons of Buffy	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hard SF Renaissance	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Analog, January/February 2005	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Space Cadets	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Star Wars on Trial	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Space Opera Renaissance	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
This Is My Funniest	(2006)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best of Jim Baen's Universe	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shadows of the New Sun	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Multiverse	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hieroglyph	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern	(2014)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Visions of the Future	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Future Visions	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Worst Contact	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ring of Fire IV	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Military & Adventure SF 2015	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Futurescapes: Cities of Empowerment	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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