Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Howey, Hugh

ISBN 10: 1328767531 / ISBN 13: 9781328767530

Editore: John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017

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Titolo: Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories

Casa editrice: John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Data di pubblicazione: 2017

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

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A new collection of stories, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogy

Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23.   
Now comes Machine Learning, an impressive collection of Howey’s science fiction and fantasy short fiction, including three stories set in the world of Wool, two never-before-published tales written exclusively for this volume, and fifteen additional stories collected here for the first time. These stories explore everything from artificial intelligence to parallel universes to video games, and each story is accompanied by an author’s note exploring the background and genesis of each story.   
Howey’s incisive mind makes Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories a compulsively readable and thought-provoking selection of short works—from a modern master at the top of his game.   

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"Each story is followed by insightful author's notes. A thoroughly engaging collection with a dark sense of humor but its finger always on the pulse of genuine human concerns."--Kirkus  

Praise for Hugh Howey   “Howey's Wool is an epic feat of imagination. You will live in this world.”—Justin Cronin, bestselling author of The Passage “Secrets unfold with just the right pacing. . . If you're looking for a good post-apocalyptic read, you can't do much better than Wool.” Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series   “With Wool Hugh Howey has created a new science fiction classic.”—Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One   “Exilharating, intense, addictive.”—S.J. Watson, bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep “The success of Howey's Wool trilogy was no fluke. This is a superior SF thriller, both slick and gritty."—Financial Times   “Sci-fi’s Underground Hit. . . appeal[s] to both men and women, and has attracted hard-core science fiction fans as well as general readers, much like The Hunger Games.”—The Wall Street Journal

"Howey’s writing is taut and immersive, and his characters’ perspectives will fascinate, no matter how inhuman they are."--Publishers Weekly "Each story is followed by insightful author's notes. A thoroughly engaging collection with a dark sense of humor but its finger always on the pulse of genuine human concerns."--Kirkus