# Missing David Brin novel?

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**Created:** [March 19, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-david-brin-novel/490004 "2009-03-19T08:05:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-david-brin-novel/490004/1 "2009-03-19T08:05:38Z")

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David Brin used to be a pretty regular writer. He’d publish a new novel every year of two. But as far as I know, his last real novel was _Kiln People_ in 2003 (he’s published some non-novel works since then). And his website is apparently closed down.

So I was glad to see a recent mention that he’s working on a new novel which is vaguely described as an “end of the world” story. But what really surprised me was a mention of a book called _Kiln Time_, which was supposedly a sequel to _Kiln People_ that was published in 2006 (Amazon even lists a specific ISBN, publisher, page count, shipping weight, and a release date of October 27 - while going on to say the book is “currently unavailable”).

There’s virtually no way I would have missed the actual release of this book in 2006. So can anyone tell me what happened?

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-david-brin-novel/490004/2 "2009-03-19T11:16:50Z")

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News to me, and I’ve read most of his stuff.

But his website isn’t down. [www.davidbrin.com](http://www.davidbrin.com) seems to be up and running still. No mention of a sequel to Kiln People, though.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-david-brin-novel/490004/3 "2009-03-19T16:29:53Z")

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> But his website isn’t down. [www.davidbrin.com](http://www.davidbrin.com) seems to be up and running still.

No problems getting on now. But I tried several times yesterday and kept getting “unable to access that URL” messages.

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**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-david-brin-novel/490004/4 "2009-03-19T16:55:24Z")

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I’d love a sequel to “Kiln People”. I loved the concept of “going Frankie”!