Edge of the Bleeding Abyss is a unique sort of meta-novel, structurally inspired by the Arabian Nights. It's a series of short-stories dealing with radical-futurist themes: advanced AI's going bonkers and/or doing naughty things, Singularitarian transcension events, the impending irrelevance of humanity, mutant uber-rabbits and their Bunnularity, superhuman intelligences from other dimensions, time-travel grown conscious and so forth. But there is also a meta-story, involving some folks telling these short stories to a potentially destructive AI, in a desperate quest to save humanity.
Details
- Publication Date
- Apr 10, 2009
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780578020501
- Category
- Fiction
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Ben Goertzel
Specifications
- Pages
- 415
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)