David Brin is the author of Evolution of Cometary Nuclei as Influenced by a Dust Component (1981), Future Sports, Felt Pen, David Brin, Age Twelve, Male, Toronto, Ontario, 1978 (1978), Evolution of Polarized Light in an Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Medium (1977), Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled with Idiots ... Or Why Fiction Routinely Depicts Society and Its Citizens as Fools (1970), Polemical Judo (1901).