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HEAVEN ENGINE - Couverture souple

Clarkson, Albert

 
9781418468521: HEAVEN ENGINE
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1418468525 ISBN 13 : 9781418468521
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2004

Synopsis

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1418468525
ISBN 13 
9781418468521
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
596
Coordonnées du fabricant
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