At Stardate 20030620.0335, David Hobby wrote:
The way I see it, a Brin book is appropriate. Practice Effect and Glory Season have been (pretty much) done, so they should be left alone.
OTOH, the analysis of _Glory Season_ was never finished. I could put the raw material on-line so that we can pick up where That Other List gave up.
I'm a bit scared to start any of the uplift stories right off--I think it should be a book that stands alone.
That makes sense. We could all first get a feel for what it really means to do such an in-depth analysis, before engaging in such an enormous project as tackling two entire trilogies.
So this leaves: The Postman, Kiln People, and the two short story books.
(Or did I forget one? I did leave out Heart of the Comet and the Foundation book. But those aren't really just Brin's ideas.)
Two other candidates are _Earth_ and _Tomorrow Happens_ (David Brin's latest (third) short story collection).
Other than that, there's also _Forgiveness_ (Star Trek comic book), _Contacting Aliens_ (Uplift companion book), _The Transparent Society_ (non-fiction) and the _Out of Time_ series. However, I don't see much point in discussing a comic book and a companion book, there might not be much fun in picking apart a non-fiction book, and the _Out of Time_ books weren't written by David Brin (although they could be interesting enough to analyse anyway).
Jeroen van Baardwijk
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