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Hieroglyph : stories and visions for a better future / edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer.
Van Pelt Library PS648.S3 H478 2014
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Short stories, American.
- Genre:
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Science fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, 2014.
- Summary:
- Born of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable collection unites a diverse group of celebrated authors, prominent scientists, and creative visionaries--among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Charlie Jane Anders, David Brin, and Neal Stephenson--who contributed works of "techno-optimism" that challenge us to imagine fully, think broadly, and do Big Stuff. Inside this volume you will find marvels of imagination and possibility, including a steel tower so tall that the stratosphere is just an elevator ride away, a drone-powered Internet, crowdfunded robots descending on the moon, cities that work like a single cell of algae powered entirely by the sun, and much more.
- Contents:
- Foreward / Lawrence M. Krauss
- Preface, Innovation starvation / Neal Stephenson
- Introduction, a blueprint for better dreams / Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer
- Atmosphæra incognita / Neal Stephenson
- Girl in wave, wave in girl / Kathleen Ann Goonan
- By the time we get to Arizona / Madeline Ashby
- Man who sold the moon / Cory Doctorow
- Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA / Lee Konstantinou
- Degrees of freedom / Karl Schroeder
- Two scenarios for the future of solar energy / Annalee Newitz
- Hotel in Antarctica / Geoffrey A. Landis
- Periapis / James L. Cambias
- Man who sold the stars / Gregory Benford
- Entanglement / Vandana Singh
- Elephant angels / Brenda Cooper
- Covenant / Elizabeth Bear
- Quantum telepathy / Rudy Rucker
- Transition generation / David Brin
- Day it all ended / Charlie Jane Anders
- Tall tower / Bruce Sterling.
- Science and science fiction, an interview with Paul Davies.
- ISBN:
- 9780062204691
- 0062204696
- OCLC:
- 866620862
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