Beta-Life - Stories from an A-Life Future

This is an anthology of specially-commissioned stories imagining life in 2070. The stories explore the future of robotics, and the possibilities promised by the next generation of computers.

About the author

Prof. Martyn Amos was awarded the world's first PhD in DNA computing; he is currently a senior lecturer in computing and mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Ra Page is the editor of The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories and the founder and managing editor of Comma Press. He has edited several anthologies published by Comma, including Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem and Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science. He has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times, and was the recipient of a Jerwood Foundation Bursary. Between 2000 - 2003 he was deputy editor of City Life and a director of the Manchester Poetry Festival.

Product details

• Authors: Prof Martyn Amos, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Stuart Evers, Julian Gough, Toby Litt, Adam Marek, Joanna Quinn, Adam Roberts, David Vann
• Assisted by: Martyn Amos (Editor), Prof Martyn Amos (Editor), Ra Page (Editor)
• Publisher: Comma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2014
• EAN: 9781905583652
• ISBN: 978-1-905583-65-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Series: Science-Into-Fiction; Science-Into-Fiction
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy