Books with author David Brenin

June 1990 Bantam Spectra jumbo trade paperback, David. Brin (Alas, Babylon). Time is running out. In 2038, the planet is overheated and overpopulated. Economies have failed; income inequality is rampant. An artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.

bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there’s something spinning a little bit higher than he expects, something that isn’t on the decades’ old orbital maps. An hour after he grabs it and brings it in, rumors fill Earth’s infomesh about an "alien artifact". Thrown into the maelstrom of worldwide shared experience, the Artifact is a game-changer—a message in a bottle, an alien capsule that wants to communicate. The world reacts as humans always do: with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence. And insatiable curiosity.

From the Jacket Flap: "It is held throughout the Five Galaxies that the first sapient species - the Progenitors - arose billions of years ago. They bestowed the gift of intelligence upon countless other races, and then mysteriously disappeared into time and space. In their name, Uplift has become sacred tradition. Over the course of history, innumerable patron species have helped worthy pre-sentients take their place among the starring races. In return, the clients are indentured to their patrons for 100,000 years - modest payment for a priceless boon...."