Author: Brian M. Stableford
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
ISBN: 9780283992117
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Third Millennium
Author: Brian M. Stableford
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
ISBN: 9780283992117
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
ISBN: 9780283992117
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Future Survey Annual 1986
Author: Michael Marien
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780930242329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780930242329
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Third Millennium : a History of the World, AD 2000-3000
Author: David Langford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780458994403
Category : Forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780458994403
Category : Forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
World Christian Trends Ad30-ad2200 (hb)
Author:
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 0878086080
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 0878086080
Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
A Short History of the Future
Author: W. Warren Wagar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226869032
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226869032
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Narrated by a far-future historian, Peter Jensen leaves an account of the world from the 1990s to the opening of the 23rd century as a gift to his granddaughter. A combination of fiction and scholarship, this third edition of Wagar's speculative history of the future alternates between descriptions of world events and intimate glimpses of this historian's family into the first centuries of the new millennium.
The Limbo Files
Author: David Langford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809573245
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In 1985, when all the world was young and dot-matrix printers stalked the primeval swamps of computing, David Langford won his Hugo Award and began a long-running column for 8000 Plus magazine (later PCW Plus). This notoriously became the page readers turned to first. The magazine was devoted to the Amstrad PCW, a bestselling home computer that pioneered affordable word processing in Britain. Langford's popular column used this official subject as a launch pad for witty coverage of life, the universe and everything. Freelancing writing and how to survive it; science fiction (especially that); secrets of editors, manuscripts, indexes, submission letters and padding; serious and spoof advice columns; parodies of Adventure games, legal proceedings, noir fiction and more; causes, scams and literary horror stories; timeless satire on shabby practice in the computer industry; awful "Thog's Masterclass" lines from SF . . . Langford shows all the wit and skill that brought him 28 Hugo Awards.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809573245
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
In 1985, when all the world was young and dot-matrix printers stalked the primeval swamps of computing, David Langford won his Hugo Award and began a long-running column for 8000 Plus magazine (later PCW Plus). This notoriously became the page readers turned to first. The magazine was devoted to the Amstrad PCW, a bestselling home computer that pioneered affordable word processing in Britain. Langford's popular column used this official subject as a launch pad for witty coverage of life, the universe and everything. Freelancing writing and how to survive it; science fiction (especially that); secrets of editors, manuscripts, indexes, submission letters and padding; serious and spoof advice columns; parodies of Adventure games, legal proceedings, noir fiction and more; causes, scams and literary horror stories; timeless satire on shabby practice in the computer industry; awful "Thog's Masterclass" lines from SF . . . Langford shows all the wit and skill that brought him 28 Hugo Awards.
Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel
Author: Ezekiel Nygren
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312955929
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel collects information about the latest and greatest hypothetical spacecraft.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312955929
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Hypothetical Spacecraft and Interstellar Travel collects information about the latest and greatest hypothetical spacecraft.
Future Stories
Author: David Christian
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316497479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Origin Story, who Bill Gates has “long been a fan of,” turns his attention to the future of humanity — and how we think about it — in this ambitious book. The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. Think of it as a sort of User’s Guide to the Future. We all need such a guide because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives. David Christian, historian and author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the individual to the cosmological. Christian consults theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a huge range of places and times as he explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in a hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 0316497479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Origin Story, who Bill Gates has “long been a fan of,” turns his attention to the future of humanity — and how we think about it — in this ambitious book. The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. Think of it as a sort of User’s Guide to the Future. We all need such a guide because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives. David Christian, historian and author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the individual to the cosmological. Christian consults theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a huge range of places and times as he explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in a hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.
Literatures of Memory
Author: Peter Middleton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719059506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Not only do drama and poetry about the past and historical novels reveal a shared understanding of pivotal moments, historical figures, and every life of earlier times, say Middleton (English, U. of Southampton) and Woods (English, U. of Wales-Aberystwyth), they also outline more general beliefs about the past and its relation to the present. It is.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719059506
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Not only do drama and poetry about the past and historical novels reveal a shared understanding of pivotal moments, historical figures, and every life of earlier times, say Middleton (English, U. of Southampton) and Woods (English, U. of Wales-Aberystwyth), they also outline more general beliefs about the past and its relation to the present. It is.
Les Fleurs Du Mal / The Undead (Wildside Double #4
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434411672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles," two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the fourth Wildside Double. "Les Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the year 2550, where premediated murder is supposedly impossible, a serial killer begins attacking very old men with specially bred plants that eat them from the inside out, creating the bizarre "flowers of evil" ("les fleurs du mal"). Biotech artist Oscar Wilde teams with UN detectives Charlotte Holmes and Hal Watson to unravel this futuristic nightmare. A Hugo Award finalist in the Novella category. "The Undead: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the world of the future, the latest rage is the creation of "Undead" personality simulations to place within the tombstones of the recently departed. But when a cluster of new monuments is vandalized, cemetery Chief Security Officer Tann Hicks must find the perpetrators and stop the crimes. Are the sims really dead? As the controversy over the Undead grows, with religious fanatics lining up against right-to-life advocates, Tann finds himself at the center of a growing political and media storm.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434411672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles," two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the fourth Wildside Double. "Les Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the year 2550, where premediated murder is supposedly impossible, a serial killer begins attacking very old men with specially bred plants that eat them from the inside out, creating the bizarre "flowers of evil" ("les fleurs du mal"). Biotech artist Oscar Wilde teams with UN detectives Charlotte Holmes and Hal Watson to unravel this futuristic nightmare. A Hugo Award finalist in the Novella category. "The Undead: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the world of the future, the latest rage is the creation of "Undead" personality simulations to place within the tombstones of the recently departed. But when a cluster of new monuments is vandalized, cemetery Chief Security Officer Tann Hicks must find the perpetrators and stop the crimes. Are the sims really dead? As the controversy over the Undead grows, with religious fanatics lining up against right-to-life advocates, Tann finds himself at the center of a growing political and media storm.