Woman's honour is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Scientist and award-winning author of Science Fiction                          

Selected Works:

The Uplift Novels:
Sundiver - 1980
Startide Rising - 1983 - Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1984 Nebula Award winner, 1983
The Uplift War - 1987 - Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1988 Nebula Award nominee, 1987

The Uplift Trilogy: sometimes called the Uplift Storm trilogy:
Brightness Reef - 1995 - Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1996 
Infinity's Shore - 1996
Heaven's Reach - 1998

The Practice Effect  - 1984
The Postman  - 1985 - Campbell and Locus SF Awards winner, Hugo Award nominee, 1986 - Nebula Award nominee, 1985. 

Originally appeared, in substantially different form, as a three-part novella in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.  - Filmed by Kevin Costner as a major motion picture
The Life Eaters - 1986
Thor Meets Captain America - 1986

Heart of the Comet  - 1986  - with Gregory Benford - Locus SF Award nominee, 1987

Earth  - 1990 - Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1991. Contains many successful predictions of current trends, such as global warming and technologies: Earth Prediction wiki

Glory Season  - 1993 - Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1994
Kiln People  - 2002 - Campbell, Clarke, Hugo, and Locus SF Awards nominee, 2003
Kiln People  - published in the UK as Kil'n People had the unusual distinction of finishing second in four different awards for best SF/fantasy novel of 2002—the Hugo, the Locus, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; each time finishing behind a different book

Graphic Novels:
Forgiveness  - 2002 - set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe
The Life Eaters  - 2003 - published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics, art by Scott Hampton
Tinkerers  - 2010 - discussion of the causes of the decline of American manufacturing

Short Fiction:
The River of Time  - 1986
Otherness  - 1994
Tomorrow Happens  - 2003

Other well-known works by David Brin include his book that completes and ties up all of the loose ends in the legendary Asimov's Foundation Universe:
Foundation's Triumph  - 1999

Non-fiction:
The Transparent Society - 1998, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association

Kiln People - 2002 -  a fictional near future when people use cheap copies of themselves to be in two places at once. 
The Life Eaters - 2003 - a chilling alternative outcome of World War II.

Storyline for the video game Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future.                          

Bachelor of Science in Astrophysics
Master of Science in Applied Physics - 1978
Doctor of Philosophy in space science  - 1981
Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies - 2010