The Crystal Spheres

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"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by David Brin. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1985. In it David Brin presents an explanation for the Fermi Paradox. The Crystal Spheres appears in Brin's anthology, The River of Time. Humanity's first few attempts at space travel meet with disaster as ships are unaccountably destroyed near the edge of the Solar System. They come to realize that Earth and many other habitable syste... more
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David Brin

Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. Brin was born in Glendale, California in 1950. In 1973, he graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a...

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  • 1985

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