The third hard science fiction short story collection.
61 1/2 short and ultra-short SF stories, plus one short novelette.
Set in pre- and post-mortal human futures, the book includes:
a series of... More > 'alternate world' catastrophes that actually happened in countless parallel timelines, including nuclear wars and deep impacts,
the first detailed story about the technical aspects of virtual reality sex,
visits to two planets in our solar system and unimagined worlds in other galaxies,
unstoppable killing machines,
brief vignettes of cosmic strangeness,
and more problems affecting artificial universes expanding to infinity.
The final story 'Antilibertarian' is a 'worst case' extrapolation about what may happen if current political and social trends continue.< Less
The third hard science fiction short story ebook.
61 1/2 short and ultra-short SF stories, plus one short novelette.
Set in pre- and post-mortal human futures, the book includes:
a series of... More > 'alternate world' catastrophes that actually happened in countless parallel timelines, including nuclear wars and deep impacts,
the first detailed story about the technical aspects of virtual reality sex,
visits to two planets in our solar system and unimagined worlds in other galaxies,
unstoppable killing machines,
brief vignettes of cosmic strangeness,
and more problems affecting artificial universes expanding to infinity.
The final story 'Antilibertarian' is a 'worst case' extrapolation about what may happen if current political and social trends continue.< Less
Because technobabble should mean something!
A collection of 73 short and ultra-short science fiction stories, and one longer novelette, about speculative technology, science, and philosophy. ... More >
Major themes include the colonization of space, new physics, space wars, inhabitable virtual environments, grand conspiracies, social evolution, mind and brain scanning, machine intelligence, the post-human Singularity, geometrically expanding hyperminds, and the ultimate limits of the knowable.
http://jack_arcalon.livejournal.com/< Less
Because technobabble should mean something!
A collection of 73 short and ultra-short science fiction stories, and one longer novelette, about speculative technology, science, and philosophy.
Major... More > themes include the colonization of space, new physics, space wars, inhabitable virtual environments, grand conspiracies, social evolution, mind and brain scanning, machine intelligence, the post-human Singularity, geometrically expanding hyperminds, and the ultimate limits of the knowable.
http://jack_arcalon.livejournal.com/< Less
