Buffy Scholar/Critic

David Brin’s best-selling SF novels have won Hugo, Nebula, and other awards and have been translated into twenty languages. His 1989 thriller. Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare, and the Web. A 1998 movie was loosely adapted from his Campbell Award winner The Postman, while Foundation's Triumph brought a grand finale to Isaac Asimov's famed Foundation Universe. Kiln People portrays people using "home copiers" to be in two places at once. David's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, deals with openness, security, and liberty in the future; it won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. [Biography from Seven Seasons of Buffy. Photo from David Brin's website.]

Brin, David, “Buffy vs. the Old-fashioned "Hero.” Seven Seasons of Buffy. Ed. Glenn Yeffeth. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2003.