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Accelerandoby Charles StrossISBN 0441014151 (0-441-01415-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Accelerando'Book summary:Expanding upon his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Charles Stross-author of such revolutionary science fiction novels as Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise-delivers the story fans have been anticipating with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre.
For three generations, the Macz family has struggled to cope with the rampant technological achievements that have rendered humans near obsolete. And mankind's end encroaches even closer when something starts to dismantle the nine planets of the solar system in an effort to annihilate all biological lifeforms. [via] 
Across Realtimeby Vernor VingeISBN 0671720988 (0-671-72098-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligenceby James BaileyISBN 0788156594 (0-7881-5659-4)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligenceby Ray KurzweilISBN 0140282025 (0-14-028202-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence'Book summary:How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right we've only got until about 2020 before computers outpace the human brain in computational power. Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines, shows that technological evolution moves at an exponential pace. Further, he asserts, in a sort of swirling postulate, time speeds up as order increases, and vice versa. He calls this the "Law of Time and Chaos," and it means that although entropy is slowing the stream of time down for the universe overall, and thus vastly increasing the amount of time between major events, in the eddy of technological evolution the exact opposite is happening, and events will soon be coming faster and more furiously. This means that we'd better figure out how to deal with conscious machines as soon as possible--they'll soon not only be able to beat us at chess, but also likely demand civil rights, and might at last realize the very human dream of immortality.
The Age of Spiritual Machines is compelling and accessible, and not necessarily best read from front to back--it's less heavily historical if you jump around (Kurzweil encourages this). Much of the content of the book lays the groundwork to justify Kurzweil's timeline, providing an engaging primer on the philosophical and technological ideas behind the study of consciousness. Instead of being a gee-whiz futurist manifesto, Spiritual Machines reads like a history of the future, without too much science fiction dystopianism. Instead, Kurzweil shows us the logical outgrowths of current trends, with all their attendant possibilities. This is the book we'll turn to when our computers first say "hello." --Therese Littleton [via]
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Are We Spiritual Machines: Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong Alby Ray Kurzweil, George F. Gilder, Jay RichardsISBN 0963865439 (0-9638654-3-9)
Softcover, Discovery Inst
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Are We Spiritual Machines: Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong Al'Book summary:Computers are becoming more powerful at an ever-increasing rate, but will they ever become conscious? Artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil thinks so and explains how we will "download" our software (our minds) and "upgrade" our hardware (our bodies) to become immortal -- before the dawn of the 22nd century. In this debate with his critics, including several Discovery Institute Fellows, Kurzweil defends his views and sets the stage for the central question: "What does it mean to be human?" [via]
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The Atrocity Archivesby Charles Stross, Ken MacLeodISBN 1930846258 (1-930846-25-8)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Atrocity Archives'Book summary:In the title piece, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, completes his theorem on 'Phase Conjugate Grammars for Extra-dimensional Summoning'. Turing's work paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when carried out, have side effects that leak through a channel underlying the structure of the Cosmos. Out there in the multiverse are 'listeners' who can sometimes be coerced into opening gates. In 1945, Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS, in an attempt to escape the Allied onslaught, performs just such a summoning on the souls of more than six million. A gate opens to an alternate universe through which the SS move people and material -- to live to fight another day. But their summoning brings forth more than the SS have bargained for -- an evil, patiently waiting all this time while learning the ways of humans, now poises to lunch on Earth. Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems, Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet round out this story. [via]
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Beyond Singularityby Gardner R. Dozois, Jack DannISBN 0441013635 (0-441-01363-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Blood Musicby Greg BearISBN 1596871067 (1-59687-106-7)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Music'Book summary:The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Moving Mars presents the book that launched his career, featuring a scientist who conducts an experiment in cell restructuring that takes on a threatening life of its own. Reprint. AB. LJ. [via]
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Brain Waveby Poul AndersonISBN 1596872209 (1-59687-220-9)
Softcover, Ibooks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brain Wave'Book summary:A fascinating 'what if novel, Brainwave is an exploration into the ways human society is organized and the assumptions that are made about how life is valued. It is also a novel about equality and what happens when the hierarchical structures by which we arrange our daily lives disappear. [via]
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A Brief History of Everythingby Ken Wilber, Dan Spinella, Tony SchwartzISBN 1570627401 (1-57062-740-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of Everything'Book summary:This account of men and women's place in a universe of sex and gender, self and society, spirit and soul is written in question-and-answer format, making it both readable and accessible. Wilber offers a series of original views on many topics of current controversy, including the gender wars, multiculturalism, modern liberation movements, and the conflict between various approaches to spirituality. [via]
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Brief History of Timeby Ron Miller, Carl Sagan, Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0816147736 (0-8161-4773-6)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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The Cassini Divisionby Ken MacLeodISBN 0812568583 (0-8125-6858-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cassini Division'Book summary:With his third novel, Ken MacLeod elaborates on the future timeline from his first two works, The Star Fraction (1995) and The Stone Canal (1996). Most relevant is book two, which established a colony on the remote world of New Mars via a spatial wormhole created by superhumans--transcendent machine-hosted intelligences called the "fast-folk." The original fast-folk crashed from too much contemplation of their metaphorical navels, but their descendants on Jupiter still harass Earth with virus transmissions that have killed off computers and the Internet. Enter heroine Ellen May Ngwethu of the Cassini Division, an elite space-going force created to defend against the fast-folk. Her wild doings in the 24th century's anarcho-socialist utopia make for fun reading--everyone will covet her smart-matter clothing that can become a spacesuit, combat outfit, evening gown, or satellite dish at will. But the Division's political philosophy is brutally tough, with alarming plans to use a planet-wrecking doomsday weapon against "enemies," who may not be hostile at all. In a climax of slam-bang space battle, MacLeod crashes the ongoing ethical debate into a brick wall and leaves you gasping. Witty, skillful, provocative, but just a trifle too glibly resolved. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Childhood's Endby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0345347951 (0-345-34795-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood's End'Book summary:The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.
But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning? [via]More editions of Childhood's End:
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Childhood's End: ISBN 0345909887 (0-345-90988-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books - Childhood's End: ISBN 0151172056 (0-15-117205-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Childhood's End: ISBN 0881032646 (0-88103-264-6)
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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vingeby Vernor VingeISBN 0312875843 (0-312-87584-3)
Softcover, Orb Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge'Book summary:A career-spanning collection of science fiction from one of the field's most highly regarded writers, The Collected Stories contains all of Vinge's published short fiction with the exception of two stories--almost 40 years of work including his first professional sale and his most recent novella (published here for the first time). It's a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable review of his career, made richer by the addition of forewords and afterwords to the individual stories in which he discusses everything from the ideas that drove the story to insights on his own writing process.
Vinge's writing is characterized by a clear love of science and an empathy for human needs and feelings. He's intensely curious about what happens when people and science collide. His stories explore the legacies of racism and xenophobia, the pros and cons of anarchy, alien contact, and the sometimes even more difficult contact between humans. He's a master of big ideas, epic settings, and stories well told. --Roz Genessee [via]
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Cosmonaut Keepby Ken MacLeodISBN 1857239865 (1-85723-986-5)
Hardcover, Orbit Books
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Darwiniaby Robert Charles WilsonISBN 0812566629 (0-8125-6662-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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A Deepness in the Skyby Vernor VingeISBN 0812536355 (0-8125-3635-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Deepness in the Sky'Book summary:This hefty novel returns to the universe of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Hugo winner A Fire Upon the Deep--but 30,000 years earlier. The story has the same sense of epic vastness despite happening mostly in one isolated solar system. Here there's a world of intelligent spider creatures who traditionally hibernate through the "Deepest Darkness" of their strange variable sun's long "off" periods, when even the atmosphere freezes. Now, science offers them an alternative... Meanwhile, attracted by spider radio transmissions, two human starfleets come exploring--merchants hoping for customers and tyrants who want slaves. Their inevitable clash leaves both fleets crippled, with the power in the wrong hands, which leads to a long wait in space until the spiders develop exploitable technology. Over the years Vinge builds palpable tension through multiple storylines and characters. In the sky, hopes of rebellion against tyranny continue despite soothing lies, brutal repression, and a mental bondage that can convert people into literal tools. Down below, the engagingly sympathetic spiders have their own problems. In flashback, we see the grandiose ideals and ultimate betrayal of the merchant culture's founder, now among the human contingent and pretending to be a senile buffoon while plotting, plotting... Major revelations, ironies, and payoffs follow. A powerful story in the grandest SF tradition. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Diasporaby Greg EganISBN 0061057983 (0-06-105798-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diaspora'Book summary:Behold the orphan.
Born into a world that is not a world.
A digital being grown from a mind seed, a genderless cybernetic citizen in a vast network of probes, satellites and servers knitting the Solar System into one scape, from the outer planets to the fiery surface of the Sun.
Since the Introdus in the 21st century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software.
Others opted for gleisners: Disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contact with the physical world of force and friction. Many of these have left the Solar System forever in fusion drive starships.
And there are the holdouts. The fleshers left behind in the muck and jungle of Earth -- some devolved into dream-apes; others cavorting in the seas or the air; while the statics and bridges try to shape out a roughly human destiny.
But the complacency of the citizens is shattered when an unforeseen disaster ravages the fleshers, and reveals the possibility that the polises themselves might be at risk from bizarre astrophysical processes that seem to violate fundamental laws of nature. The Orphan joins a group of citizens and flesher refugees in a search for the knowledge that will guarantee their safety -- a search that puts them on the trail of the ancient and elusive Transmuters, who have the power to reshape subatomic particles, and to cross into the macrocosmos, where the universe we know is nothing but a speck in the higher-dimensional vacuum.
Quite simply the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation, Greg Egan has written a quantum Brave New World for the century's end -- a masterful SF saga envisioning a time when not only humanity but "reality" itself will be but a memory.
It is a novel unlike anything you have ever read. Or even imagined. [via]
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Eonby Greg BearISBN 0812520475 (0-8125-2047-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eon'Book summary:Above our planet hangs a hollow Stone, vast as the imagination of Man. The inner dimensions are at odds with the outer: there are different chambers to be breached, some even containing deserted cities. The furthest chamber contains the greatest mystery ever to confront the Stone's scientists. But tombstone or milestone, the Stone is not an alien structure: it comes from the future of our humanity. And the war that breaks out on Earth seems to bear witness to the Stone's prowess as oracle ... [via]
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Excessionby Iain BanksISBN 0553575376 (0-553-57537-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Excession'Book summary:Iain M. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle....
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself.
There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace...or to the brink of annihilation.
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Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Foreverby Ray Kurzweil, Terry GrossmanISBN 1579549543 (1-57954-954-3)
Hardcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever'Book summary:The idea behind Kurzweil and Grossman's Fantastic Voyage is that if you can make it through the next 50 years, you might become immortal. How will that be possible? Through some rather science fictional steps, it turns out, including taking advantage of the latest in biotechnological breakthroughs and not-yet-invented nanotechnology. Is all this longing for immortality driven by an obsession with youth or a fear of death? Readers can judge for themselves, as both Kurzweil and Grossman reveal the personal histories that led them to develop this plan. Fantastic Voyage is written in an easy-to-understand tone, with lots of sidebars giving examples of what the future holds for medicine and health. Whether or not you think that science will find a way to keep our bodies or our disembodied minds alive forever, this book is full of diet and lifestyle tips. For instance, the authors suggest carefully controlling the body's overall pH at an alkaline level, meditating, eating a diet composed mostly of vegetables and protein, and taking loads of supplements (Kurzweil downs about 250 pills each day). The dietary options presented here will mostly only be practical for people whose income levels can support buying organic produce, fresh fish and meat, and top-shelf supplements. The authors cavalierly state that we are living in a "time of abundance," but it seems likely that most who are able to follow this regimen will be Americans of a fairly high socioeconomic class. --Therese Littleton [via]
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A Fire upon the Deepby Vernor VingeISBN 0812515285 (0-8125-1528-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Fire upon the Deep'Book summary:In this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much nail-biting suspense.
Faster-than-light travel remains impossible near Earth, deep in the galaxy's Slow Zone--but physical laws relax in the surrounding Beyond. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers." When human meddling wakes an old Power, the Blight, this spreads like a wildfire mind virus that turns whole civilizations into its unthinking tools. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World.
Serious complications follow. One paranoid alien alliance blames humanity for the Blight and launches a genocidal strike. Pham Nuwen, the man who knows about Countermeasure, escapes this ruin in the spacecraft Out of Band--heading for more violence and treachery, with 500 warships soon in hot pursuit. On his destination world, the fascinating Tines are intelligent only in combination: named "individuals" are small packs of the doglike aliens. Primitive doesn't mean stupid, and opposed Tine leaders wheedle the young castaways for information about guns and radios. Low-tech war looms, with elaborately nested betrayals and schemes to seize Out of Band if it ever arrives. The tension becomes extreme... while half the Beyond debates the issues on galactic Usenet.
Vinge's climax is suitably mindboggling. This epic combines the flash and dazzle of old-style space opera with modern, polished thoughtfulness. Pham Nuwen also appears in the nifty prequel set 30,000 years earlier, A Deepness in the Sky. Both recommended. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Genesisby Poul AndersonISBN 0812580281 (0-8125-8028-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Glasshouseby Charles StrossISBN 0441015085 (0-441-01508-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glasshouse'Book summary:In the twenty-seventh century, accelerated technology dictates the memories and personalities of people. With most of his own memories deleted, Robin enters The Glasshouse-an experimental polity where he finds himself at the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche.[via] 
Godplayersby Damien BroderickISBN 1560256702 (1-56025-670-2)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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The Golden Ageby John C. WrightISBN 0812579844 (0-8125-7984-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Age'Book summary:The Golden Age is the most ambitious and impressive science fiction novel since China Miéville's Perdido Street Station. Amazingly, it is John C. Wright's debut novel.
In the far future, humans have become as gods: immortal, almost omnipotent, able to create new suns and resculpt body and mind. A trusting son of this future, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, discovers the rulers of the solar system have erased entire centuries from his mind. When he attempts to regain his lost memories, the whole society of the Golden Oecumene opposes him. Like his mythical namesake, Phaethon has flown too high and been cast down. He has committed the one act forbidden in his utopian universe. Now he must find out what it is--and who he is.
A novel influenced by Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and A.E. van Vogt, yet uniquely itself, The Golden Age presents a complex and thoroughly imagined future that will delight science fiction fans. John C. Wright has a gift for big, bold concepts and extrapolations, and his smoothly written novel pushes cyberpunk's infotech density to a new level, while abandoning cyberpunk's nihilistic noir tone for SF's original optimism. Big ideas are joined by big themes; Wright provocatively explores the nature of heroism, the nature of power, and the conflict between the rights of the individual and those of society.
Fiction as ambitious as The Golden Age is never flawless. Action fans will find this novel too talky. A change of quests late in the novel is jarring. And, while this Romance of the Far Future suitably examines the heroic virtues, its unfortunate subtext is "heroism is a guy thing." This far-future novel published in 2002 maintains a credulity-shattering mid-20th-century sexual status quo.
Not all plotlines are resolved in The Golden Age, and a sequel is forthcoming. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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The Golden Transcendence: or, The Last of the Masqueradeby John C. WrightISBN 0765349086 (0-7653-4908-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Transcendence: or, The Last of the Masquerade'Book summary:Begun with The Golden Age, continued with The Phoenix Exultant, and now concluding in The Golden Transcendence, The Golden Age trilogy is Grand Space Opera, an SF adventure saga in the tradition of A. E. Van Gogt, Roger Zelazny and Cordwainer Smith. It is an astounding story of super-science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the elan of SF's golden age writers in the suspenseful and passionate tale of Phaeton, a lone rebel unhappy in utopia.[via]
The end of the Millennium is imminent, when all minds, human, posthuman, cybernetic, sophotechnic, will be temporarily merged into one solar-system-spanning supermind called the Transcendence. This is not only the fulfillment of a thousand years of dreams, it is a day of doom, when the universal mind will pass judgment on the all the races of humanity and transhumanity.
The mighty ship Phoenix Exultant is at last in the hands of her master, Phaethon the Exile is at her helm and his dream of starflight in alive once more. He is being hunted by alien agents, the eerie and deadly Lords of the Silent Oecumene, who would steal the Phoenix Exultant and turn it into a weapon.
The all-encompassing Mind of the Golden Transcendence is waking. Will it endorse Phaeton's dream or face the first interstellar war?More editions of The Golden Transcendence: or, The Last of the Masquerade:
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Iron Sunriseby Charles StrossISBN 0441012965 (0-441-01296-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iron Sunrise'Book summary:A G2 star doesn't just explode - not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown - an unimaginable - enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden, but also the very order of the universe." And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows. [via]
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Lady of Mazesby Karl SchroederISBN 0765350785 (0-7653-5078-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lady of Mazes'Book summary:Karl Schroeder is one of the new stars of hard SF. His novels, Ventus and Permanence, have established him as a new force in the field. Now he extends his reach into Larry Niven territory, returning to the same distant future in which Ventus was set, but employing a broader canvas. Lady of Mazes is the story of Teven Coronal, a ringworld with a huge multiplicity of human civilizations. It's the story of what happens when the delicate balance of coexisting worlds is completely destroyed, when the fabric of reality itself is torn.[via]
Brilliant but troubled Livia Kodaly is Teven's only hope against invaders both human and superhuman who threaten the fragile ecologies and human diversity. Filled with action, ideas, and intellectual energy, Lady of Mazes is the hard SF novel of the year.More editions of Lady of Mazes:
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The Last Mortal Generation: How Science Will Alter Our Lives in the 21st Centuryby Damien BroderickISBN 1864364408 (1-86436-440-8)
Softcover, New Holland Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Mortal Generation: How Science Will Alter Our Lives in the 21st Century'Book summary:Inspired by the debate about cloning and recent discoveries about the causes of cancer and ageing, this book seeks to explain research into genetic engineering, neuroscience, quantum theory and cosmology. It proposes evidence for the claim that science seems to be on the verge of providing what religion once offered - a genuine prospect of physical immortality and the option to understand the deepest mysteries of life, the universe and the human spirit. [via]
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Learning the World: A Scientific Romanceby Ken MacLeodISBN 0765351773 (0-7653-5177-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Liberation Biology: The Scientific And Moral Case For The Biotech Revolutionby Ronald BaileyISBN 1591022274 (1-59102-227-4)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fictionby Mike AshleyISBN 0786717270 (0-7867-1727-0)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Marooned In Realtimeby Vernor VingeISBN 0765308843 (0-7653-0884-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marooned In Realtime'Book summary:Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.[via]
In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now. Opinion is fiercely divided on whether to settle in and plant the seed of mankind anew, or to continue using high-energy stasis fields, or "bobbles," in venturing into the future. When somebody is murdered, it's obvious someone has a secret he or she is willing to kill to preserve.The murder intensifies the rift between the two factions, threatening the survival of the human race. It's up to 21st century detective Wil Brierson, the only cop left in the world, to find the culprit, a diabolical fiend whose lust for power could cause the utter extinction of man.
Filled with excitement and adventure, Vinge's tense SF puzzler will satisfy readers with its sense of wonder and engaging characters, one of whom is a murderer with a unique modus operandi.
Newton's Wake: A Space Operaby Ken MacLeodISBN 076534422X (0-7653-4422-X)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Newton's Wake: A Space Opera'Book summary:With visionary epics like The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and Cosmonaut Keep, award-winning Scottish author Ken MacLeod has led a revolution in contemporary science fiction, blending cutting edge science and razor-sharp political insights with pure, over-the-top interstellar adventure. Now MacLeod takes this heady mix to a new level with a stunning new SF masterwork--Newton's Wake.[via]
In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture--a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings--a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered.
Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interplanetary star-gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten her way of life.
Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies--and What It Means to Be Humanby Joel GarreauISBN 0767915038 (0-7679-1503-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Rainbows Endby Vernor VingeISBN 0812536363 (0-8125-3636-3)
Softcover, Tor Science Fiction
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbows End'Book summary:Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025.[via]
Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer's patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his place in it. He was a world-renowned poet. Now he is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger, and he's starting over, for the first time unsure of his poetic gifts . Living with his son's family, he has no choice but to learn how to cope with a new information age in which the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice. But the consensus reality of the digital world is available only if, like his thirteen-year-old granddaughter Miri, you know how to wear your wireless access--through nodes designed into smart clothes--and to see the digital context--through smart contact lenses.
With knowledge comes risk. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, learning with other older people what is second nature to Miri and other teens at school, he unwittingly becomes part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination.
In a world where every computer chip has Homeland Security built-in, this conspiracy is something that baffles even the most sophisticated security analysts, including Robert's son and daughter-in law, two top people in the U.S. military. And even Miri, in her attempts to protect her grandfather, may be entangled in the plot.
As Robert becomes more deeply involved in conspiracy, he is shocked to learn of a radical change planned for the UCSD Geisel Library; all the books there, and worldwide, would cease to physically exist. He and his fellow re-trainees feel compelled to join protests against the change. With forces around the world converging on San Diego, both the conspiracy and the protest climax in a spectacular moment as unique and satisfying as it is unexpected. This is science fiction at its very best, by a master storyteller at his peak. 
River of Godsby Ian McDonaldISBN 1591024366 (1-59102-436-6)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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The Rosary: Chain of Hopeby Benedict GroeschelISBN 0898709830 (0-89870-983-0)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Schild's Ladderby Greg EganISBN 006107344X (0-06-107344-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Schild's Ladder: A Novel'Book summary:The Age of Death ended countless millennia ago. No longer burdened by limited lifespans, the immortal humans who populate inhabited space now have the luxury to travel vast distances effortlessly and to tinker with the intricate mechanics of spacetime. But one such experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic and unanticipated result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum -- a region of new physics -- with the frightening potential to devour countless inhabited solar systems.
Tchicaya abandoned his homeworld four thousand years ago to travel the universe, freely choosing, as have others of his bent, to endure the hardships of distance and loneliness for the sake of knowledge and experience. Aboard the Rindler, a starship trawling the border of the allconsuming novo-vacuum, he feels his endless life has new purpose. For the Rindler is the center for the scientific study the phenomenon -- a common ground for Preservationists and Yielders alike, those working to halt and destroy the encroaching worlds-eater ... and those determinedto investigate its marvels while allowing its growth to continue unchecked. Tchicaya has allied himself firmly with the latter camp.The passing decades -- and inevitable expansion of the void -- widen the great rift between the two factions, intensifying what was once simply ideological differences into something more angry, explosive, and dangerous. And the arrival of Tchicaya's fiery first love, Mariama, and her immediate embracing of the Preservationist cause, intensifies an inner turmoil he has been struggling with since his distant childhood.But everything onboard the Rindler -- and, ultimately, in the inhabited universe itself-is on the cusp of further cataclysmic change, as the Yielders' explorations threaten to transform discord into violent action and potential xenocide. For new evidence suggests that something unthinkable is developing at an astounding rate deep within the mysterious, 600-light-years-wide void -- something neither Tchicaya and his compatriots nor Mariama and hers could ever have imagined possible: life. [via]More editions of Schild's Ladder:
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Silver Screenby Justina RobsonISBN 1591023386 (1-59102-338-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silver Screen'Book summary:"Silver Screen" presents an enjoyably different, subversive slant on the science fiction themes of AI and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight heroine Anjuli O'Connell is one of a group of friends who have been hot-housed from an early age to perform in genius-level jobs. But, Anjuli worries that her eidetic memory and her friendship with genuine smart boy Roy Croft has been her ticket to success, rather than any real intelligence of her own. She's put to the test when Roy kills himself in an experiment to upload his mind into cyberspace, seeking that SF dream of bodiless immortality, which doesn't work as expected. At the same time, her boyfriend's research has led to him harnessing himself to dubious biomechanoid technologies, which pull the user into mental symbiosis, creating hybrid consciousness - a new 'I', continuous with the old, but different. 'Where does life end and the machine begin?' Meanwhile, Anjuli's grasping multinational employer, OptiNet, the owner of global communications AI, 901, is locked into an increasingly bitter war with the Machine-Greens, who preach AI liberation. As the case for 901's humanity, or otherwise, comes up before the Strasbourg Court, expert witness Anjuli is targeted by assassins and entangled in the hunt for an algorithm which is the key to machine consciousness, and which may even be the master-code of life itself. This story explores many interfaces between humans and their technologies, between the promises of science and the explanations of faith. It is written in a first-person style that mingles elements of detective story and confessional. Alongside its SF content, the book delves into the complexities of friendship, loyalty, love, and betrayal from an intimate human perspective. [via]
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Singularityby Bill DeSmedtISBN 0974573442 (0-9745734-4-2)
Hardcover, Per Aspera Pr
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biologyby Ray KurzweilISBN 0143037889 (0-14-303788-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology'Book summary:The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an eventthe "singularity"in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event a human- machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death; and virtually any physical product can be created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near also considers the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005. [via]
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Singularity Skyby Charles StrossISBN 0441011799 (0-441-01179-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Singularity Sky'Book summary:This much-anticipated debut novel is set 400 years in the future-and in the wake of perfected time travel, the ultimate advancements in technology and information, and the groundbreaking development of Artificial Intelligence. Is this all a great step for humanity? Or will it be our ultimate downfall?
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Sister Aliceby Robert ReedISBN 0765341476 (0-7653-4147-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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--Library Journal
Millions of years from now, humanity will be on the brink of self-destruction. The world's great leaders have created an elite group who, by their superior wisdom and abilities, keep the peace, maintain progress, and otherwise safeguard humanity's future. Genetically enhanced, they are the carriers of Earth's greatest talents, a force unlike any in the history of mankind.
For ten million years, the Families dominated the galaxy. But then Alice, a brilliant scientist of the Chamberlain family, took part in an attempt to create a new galaxy. Her experiment unleashed vast forces that the family could not control, causing a catastrophe that killed untold billions of people on many worlds.
Before she was punished for her role in the debacle, Alice visited Ord, a younger Chamberlain. Only he, of all the people in the galaxy, knows what Alice tells him. Her words launch him upon a quest that will take him across the vast reaches of space. He must discover his own true nature, and somehow restore the family honor. Sister Alice is his epic story.More editions of Sister Alice:
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The Sky Roadby Ken MacLeodISBN 0312873352 (0-312-87335-2)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sky Road'Book summary:In the series that started with The Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod has created a future history whose genesis was an argument about anarchism between a group of left-wing students in the '70s. The destruction and renaissance of civilization, here and elsewhere in the human galaxy, turns on this argument. In the fourth book, MacLeod productively fills in some of the gaps. This is the story of Myra, Trot-turned-entrepreneur, whose nuclear deterrence-for-hire is central to the event known by some as the Fall and others as the Deliverance. It is also the story of young Clovis, part-time worker in the yard where the first space-ship in centuries is being built, part-time scholar trying to find out what Myra the Deliverer was really like.
MacLeod's readers are used to his quirky and intelligent take on the world of power politics and his charmingly cynical gift for engaging and engaged protagonists. What this book also has is a profound sense of the beauty of a simpler and stiller world; MacLeod's real gift is his capacity to see all sides of a question, even when he is sure of the answer. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk [via]
Spinby Robert Charles WilsonISBN 076534825X (0-7653-4825-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Star Fractionby Ken MacLeodISBN 0765301563 (0-7653-0156-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Stone Canalby Ken MacLeodISBN 0812568648 (0-8125-6864-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Canal'Book summary:"So it's true what they say: information wants to be free!" But the information in question, in this case, is Dee Model, a sexy, butt-kicking, love-slave android who's just mysteriously become self-aware, eluded her owner, and filed for her own autonomy. And the person making the remark (ironic given that it's a centuries-old reference) is Ax Terminal, a "freelance professional eunuch and part-time catamite," a resident of New Mars, the wormhole-away-from-Jupiter free-market anarchy set up thanks to the fast-folk, an uploaded race of überhumans experiencing reality and evolving at ultrahigh speeds. Android Dee, as it turns out, may have been nudged toward freedom by Jon Wilde, her cloned body's former husband (they met at Glasgow University back in the '70s), who just recently came back from the dead (revived by himself, in robot form) to join in the struggle between robot abolitionists and the malicious boss man of New Mars, David Reid (Wilde's former rival and owner of the sex slave that happens to be a cloned copy of Wilde's former wife). Now this is what great science fiction is all about.
Action-packed, inventive, and satisfyingly weird, Ken MacLeod's Stone Canal (the retroactively U.S.-released prequel to The Cassini Division) lets loose with a steady stream of challenging ideas and novel technology, taking on questions of free will, identity, and the nature of consciousness, all the while telling a bang-up story. Reminiscent of K.W. Jeter's best work, The Stone Canal certainly deserves a look. --Paul Hughes [via]
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To Hold Infinityby John MeaneyISBN 1591024897 (1-59102-489-7)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To Hold Infinity'Book summary:John Meaney's short stories in Interzone magazine gave him a reputation in SF circles as a highly promising writer. The promise is fulfilled in his debut novel To Hold Infinity, which has all the authentic flash and dazzle of cutting-edge science fiction. It's set in a colony world whose "Luculenti" aristocracy are genuinely superior to the common herd, thanks to built-in brain enhancements that provide all-senses Net communication and multi-tasking processing power. The implications are nicely explored, with characters manipulating the market and buying and selling companies during fleeting pauses in conversation. An utterly hissable serial-killer villain exploits the permanent Net links of fellow Luculenitis to assimilate their minds using vampire software and to steal their add-ons for himself--his mind is multiplied by hundreds of these "extra brains," though the legal limit is three. Others sense that something's wrong, and tough heroine Sunadomari Yoshiko from primitive old Earth becomes entangled in the invisible, multi-levelled struggle for people's souls. When the megalomaniac killer goes too far in public, the hunt is on and Yoshiko will be the bait. The book glows with biological and nanotechnological wonders, strange weapons and surprising perspectives. It is deservedly shortlisted for the 1999 British Science Fiction Association Award. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Toastby Charles StrossISBN 1587154137 (1-58715-413-7)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Toast: And Other Rusted Futuresby Charles StrossISBN 0809500256 (0-8095-0025-6)
Softcover, Cosmos Books
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Two Trains Runningby Lucius ShepardISBN 1930846231 (1-930846-23-1)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two Trains Running'Book summary:This collection of fact and fiction was inspired by the time science fiction writer Lucius Shepard spent with Missoula Mike, Madcat, and other members of a controversial brotherhood known as the Freight Train Riders of America. Shepard rode the rails throughout the western half of the United States with the disenfranchised, the homeless, the punks, the gangs, and the joy riders for the magazine article 'The FTRA Story'. That original article is presented here, along with two new hobo novellas, 'Over Yonder' and 'Jailbait'. In 'Over Yonder', alcoholic Billy Long Gone finds himself on an unusual train. As Billy travels his health improves and his thinking clears, and he arrives in Yonder -- an unlikely paradise where a few hundred hobos live in apparent peace and tranquillity. But every paradise has its price, and in Yonder, peace and tranquillity breed complacency and startling deaths. 'Jailbait' is a hardcore tale of deception, lust, revenge, and murder in the seedy underbelly of rail yards and train hopping. Madcat, who functions best in a whiskey-induced haze, must decide between solitude and companionship when he meets up with Grace, an underaged runaway. Grace, in turn, seeks the security of an older man and the life about which only young girls can dream. [via]
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Ventusby Karl SchroederISBN 0812576357 (0-8125-7635-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ventus'Book summary:After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.[via]
On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent. Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason. Jordan has visions. He is desperate to find their meaning and source -- desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created.
Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with two big mysteries -- why have the Winds fallen silent? And is Armiger, or Jordan, carrying a Resurrection Seed?More editions of Ventus:
Voices from the Edge: Conversations With Jerry Garcia, Ram Dass, Annie Sprinkle, Matthew Fox, Jaron Lanier, & Othersby David Jay Brown, Rebecca McClen NovickISBN 0895947323 (0-89594-732-3)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Breve Historia De Todas Las Cosas/ A Brief History of Everythingby Ken Wilber, David Gonzalez RagaISBN 8472453650 (84-7245-365-0)
Softcover, Karios Editorial Sa
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breve Historia De Todas Las Cosas/ A Brief History of Everything'Book summary:[via]This account of the place of men and women in a universe of sex and gender, self and society, and spirit and soul is written in question-and-answer format, making its grand ideas accessible. An exemplary introduction to Wilber's integral theory of consciousness that draws from the wisdom of all the traditions of inquiry, these questions offer a series of original views on many topics of current controversy, including the gender wars, multiculturalism, modern liberation movements, and the conflict between various approaches to spirituality.Esta consideración de la posición de hombres y mujeres en un universo del sexo y el género, el yo y la sociedad y el espíritu y la alma, está escrita como una serie de preguntas y respuestas, un formato que hace accesibles las grandes ideas que contiene. Una introducción ejemplar a la teoría integral de la conciencia de Wilber, que deriva de la sabiduría de todas las tradiciones de pensar, estas preguntas ofrecen una serie de opiniones originales de varios temas controversiales, incluyendo la guerra de los sexos, el multiculturalismo, los movimientos modernos de liberación y el conflicto entre diferentes teorías de espiritualidad.More editions of Breve Historia De Todas Las Cosas/ A Brief History of Everything:
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Brevisima Historia Del Tiempo/a Brief History of Timeby Stephen Hawking, Leonard MlodinowISBN 8484326373 (84-8432-637-3)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brevisima Historia Del Tiempo/a Brief History of Time'Book summary:En 1988 aparecio un libro que iba a cambiar de arriba abajo nuestra concepcion del universo y que se convirtio en uno de los mayores best-sellers cientificos: "Historia del tiempo", de Stephen Hawking, el mayor genio del siglo xx despues de Einstein. Pese a su exito colosal, aquel libro presentaba algunas dificultades de comprension para el publico menos familiarizado con los principios de la fisica teorica. Ahora, diecisiete años despues, el profesor Hawking ha escrito este libro maravilloso y sencillo que pone al alcance del comun de los mortales los grandes misterios del mundo y de la vida. [via]
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La Era Del Diamante/The Diamond Ageby Neal Stephenson, Pedro RomeroISBN 8466617248 (84-666-1724-8)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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El Fin De LA Infancia/Childhood's Endby Arthur C. ClarkeISBN 9684460422 (968-446-042-2)
Softcover, Minotauro Mexico
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Historia Del Tiempoby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 8420639710 (84-206-3971-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Historia del tiempo / A Brief History of Time: del big bang a los agujeros negros / From Big Bangs to the Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 9879317114 (987-9317-11-4)
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El Rio De Los Dioses/ the River of the Godsby Ian McDonaldISBN 8498002508 (84-9800-250-8)
Softcover, LA Factoria De Ideas
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