Hieroglyph - Stories and Visions for a Better Future

Zusatztext "This new anthology justly deserves to be ranked alongside the very best collections published within science fiction: Terry Carr's Universe ! Damon Knight's Orbit ! or Robert Silverberg's New Dimensions ." Informationen zum Autor Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University! where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts! Media and Engineering and the Department of English. He has worked as a journalist at Time ! Slate ! and Popular Science . Kathryn Cramer is a writer! critic! and anthologist! and was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series. She has co-edited approximately 30 anthologies. She was a founding editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction! and has a large number of Hugo nominations in the Semiprozine category to show for it. She won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear . Kathryn grew up in Seattle. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a masters degree in American Studies! both from from Columbia University in New York. Recently! she has been a consultant for Wolfram Research! L. W. Currey! an antiquarian bookseller! and for ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination. She currently lives in Westport! New York in the Adirondack Park. Klappentext Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson! some of today's leading writers! thinkers! and visionaries have come together in this anthology of stories! set in the near future! that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction 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. Engaging! mind-bending! provocative! and imaginative! Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future offers a forward-thinking approach to the intersection of art and technology that has the power to change our world. Zusammenfassung Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson! an anthology of stories! set in the near future! from some of today’s leading writers! thinkers! and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction. In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation!” Neal Stephenson argued that we—the society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed the airplane! the automobile! nuclear energy! the computer! and space exploration—must reignite our ambitions to think boldly and do Big Stuff. He also advanced the Hieroglyph Theory which illuminates the power of science fiction to inspire the inventive imagination: “Good SF supplies a plausible! fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place.” In 2012! Arizona State University established the Center for Science and the Imagination to bring together writers! artists! and creative thinkers with scientists! engineers! and technologists to cultivate and expand on “moon shot ideas” that inspire the imagination and catalyze real-world innovations. Now comes this remarkable anthology uniting twenty of today...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kathryn Cramer, Ed Finn, Ed/ Cramer Finn, Neal Stephenson
• Con la collaborazione di: Kathryn Cramer (Illustrazione), Kathryn Cramer (Editore), Ed Finn (Editore)
• Editore: William Morrow
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9780062204691
• ISBN: 978-0-06-220469-1
• Pagine: 560
• Dimensioni: 165 mm x 235 mm x 43 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION: Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, FICTION: Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION: Science Fiction / Space Exploration