Nowadays David Brin's off-list messages tend to come with a lot of advertising for his current projects -- and it is getting worse. If you think his comment on us writing stories around Tom Orley was long: that was only 50% of the entire message...
I have removed the ads for _Kiln People_ and _Forgiveness_, since we have all seen them at least once, but the rest you will find below. Interesting stuff; working on a new novel, and at least three cases of musicians being inspired by the Uplift saga. >Also on the horizon for summer 2002: CONTACTING ALIENS: THE ILLUSTRATED >GUIDE TO DAVID BRIN'S UPLIFT UNIVERSE. This will be a wonderfully fun tour >of the many alien races that people have enjoyed in books like STARTIDE >RISING and THE UPLIFT WAR. Those seeking more can download an uplift story >from http://www.davidbrin.com/ > >I'm currently working on my first "Heinleinian Juvenile" novel... this one >about some rather unpleasant aliens who decide that, because humanity did >them a favor, they owe us a gift. The gift they choose is a colony on >another world. But for colonists, they zap up 3,000 kids from a >Californian high school... > >MUSIC! Matucana (http://www.matacuna.de), a electronic music group led by >German composer Helmuth Schomberg, based half an hour of highly evocative >music in their album "To Beat The Feeling" on the dolphin rhythms, >melodics and story lines that Schomberg found in Startide Rising. In >contrast, a Canadian rock n' roll band, 'Treebeard' (www.treebeard.ca), >produced a more hard-biting song with lyrics based on the lament of the >wounded dolphin captain, Creideiki. And again inspired by Startide Rising, >Baltimore composer Katherine Gilliam >(http://www.angelfire.com/home/kgilliam) created yet another work in a >completely different musical form -- a haunting a capella choral work >called "Starships". (Please let us know of any other dramatizations or >compositions out there.) > >Transparency. For those of you who already own The Transparent Society, >drop by pages 206-209. Kinda weird! Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
