Effect, Glory Season, and Kiln People. Influence of Jewish heritage Brin's Jewish heritage is the source of two other strong themes in his works. Tikkun Olam ("repairing the world", i.e. people have a duty to make the world a better place) is originally a religious concept, but Brin, like many non-orthodox Jews, has adapted this into a secular notion of working to improve the human condition, to increase knowledge, and to prevent long-term evils. Brin has confirmed that this notion in part underscores the notion of humans as "caretakers" of sentient-species-yet-to-be, as he explains in a concluding note at the end of Startide Rising; and it plays a key role in The Uplift War, in which the Thennanin are converted from enemies to allies of the Terragens (humans and other sapients that originated on Earth) when they realize that making the world a better place and being good care-takers are core values of both civilizations. Many of Brin's novels emphasize another element of Jewish tradition: the importance of laws and legality, whether intergalactic law in the Uplift series or that of near-future California in Kiln People. Still, Brin has stated, "Truly mature citizens ought not to need an intricate wrapping of laws and regulations, in order to do what common sense dictates as good for all". Bibliography Fiction The Uplift stories The Uplift novels are: Sundiver (1980), Startide Rising (1983), . Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1984; Nebula Award winner, 1983 The Uplift War (1987), . Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1988; Nebula Award nominee, 1987 The Uplift Trilogy (sometimes called the Uplift Storm trilogy): Brightness Reef (1995) . Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1996 Infinity's Shore (1996), Heaven's Reach (1998), Short stories: "Aficionado" (1998) was first published as "Life in the Extreme" in Popular Science magazine, republished in the 2003 limited-edition collection Tomorrow Happens, and included in Brin's 2012 novel Existence. It is available on Brin's website. "Aficionado" takes place before the novels. "Temptation" (1999) appeared in Robert Silverberg's anthology Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction and is set after the events of Infinity's Shore. Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe (2002), is co-written by Brin and Kevin Lenagh High Horizon Colony High (February 2021) Castaways of New Mojave (August 2021) – with Jeff Carlson Other fiction Stand-alone novels: The Practice Effect (1984), The Postman (1985),