HEAVEN ENGINE - Brossura

Clarkson, Albert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1418468525 ISBN 13: 9781418468521

Casa editrice: AuthorHouse, 2004

Riassunto

A future of designer humans, smart machines, protean technology. Our dwindled descendents exiled to large space stations visit Cleansed Earth occasionally for gravity- and sensory-deprivation therapy. Human longevity, at last attained, ironically creates a Great Plague of Suicidal Despair, Disnovelling, born of the intruding longer prospect of bloody Nature and of the impersonal hurtling cosmic vastitudes. Centwen, a resurrected twentieth century archetype joined by elites and archetypes from other centuries, learns from his tour guides, the superbot, Prodigy, and its human creator, Great Psychodor, about a last-chance project to create not a mythical but a secular, dynamic, intelligent Heaven; and, if it succeeds, whether or not transformed humans and/or their intelligent machines can escape to it.

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L'autore

Albert Clarkson was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He is the author of a previous novel, The Old World (Alchemy Books, 1988) and a nonfiction book about analysis and planning in the National Security establishment, Toward Effective Strategic Analysis: New Applications Of Information Technology (Westview Press, 1982). He lives with his wife In Los Gatos, California.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: AuthorHouse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1418468525
• ISBN 13: 9781418468521
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 596
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile