IO9: Your new novel, set four decades from now, shows a world ravaged by global warming, economic disparity and widening ideological divides. What would you say to those who might accuse you of scare-mongering and the painting of an unrealistically bleak picture of the future?

David Brin: In fact, I am known as rather an optimist, in that I agree ( Read more... )

The abandonment of optimism is a crime against civilization.

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I'm registered in Benton county, Arkansas even though I haven't lived there since 2008. I could have requested an absentee ballot, but I didn't ( Read more... )

I wrote the following in response to an entry in David Brin's blog in which he wrote:All the rest -- every other type of conservative -- from free-marketers to libertarians to efficiency freaks and budget balancers, all the way to nativist border-watchers -- all of them stew under Rove’s Big Tent, simmering and unhappy over a litany of betrayals, ( Read more... )