Author: J. L. Bourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The machines brought society to its knees. Now, the last remaining humans fight for survival--and to take back what's theirs. Junior, a robotics expert, tinkers quietly underground. With dozens of machine kills under his belt, he knows the enemy inside and out. Alpha0verride, a reclusive black hat hacker, uses the skills acquired over a life of shady activity to outwit the hyper-intelligent machines swarming in on her. Brick, a special forces operator and one of the few Pentagon survivors, fights his inner demons to embark on the most important mission of his life. Together they are humanity's last, best hope--if they can only find each other in time. From the Author First, I brought you the cult classic, Day by Day Armageddon, where we both journeyed alongside the unnamed survivor as he trekked across the bleak landscapes of the undead. Some time after the Great Recession, I strived to accurately depict the bedlam of a post-grid down United States in Tomorrow War--An alternate timeline where a jack boot on the throat of humanity is only one black swan event away. Now, after years of world building, writing and editing in my attic, Trilobyte is ready for you, my beloved reader. Some might call it a warning of what is to come if we aren't careful with our creations. Trilobyte is the most terrifying thing I have ever written. They are closer than you think. They will be trillions. They will come for you. Lock your doors and load those rail guns. The machines are here.
Trilobyte
Author: J. L. Bourne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The machines brought society to its knees. Now, the last remaining humans fight for survival--and to take back what's theirs. Junior, a robotics expert, tinkers quietly underground. With dozens of machine kills under his belt, he knows the enemy inside and out. Alpha0verride, a reclusive black hat hacker, uses the skills acquired over a life of shady activity to outwit the hyper-intelligent machines swarming in on her. Brick, a special forces operator and one of the few Pentagon survivors, fights his inner demons to embark on the most important mission of his life. Together they are humanity's last, best hope--if they can only find each other in time. From the Author First, I brought you the cult classic, Day by Day Armageddon, where we both journeyed alongside the unnamed survivor as he trekked across the bleak landscapes of the undead. Some time after the Great Recession, I strived to accurately depict the bedlam of a post-grid down United States in Tomorrow War--An alternate timeline where a jack boot on the throat of humanity is only one black swan event away. Now, after years of world building, writing and editing in my attic, Trilobyte is ready for you, my beloved reader. Some might call it a warning of what is to come if we aren't careful with our creations. Trilobyte is the most terrifying thing I have ever written. They are closer than you think. They will be trillions. They will come for you. Lock your doors and load those rail guns. The machines are here.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The machines brought society to its knees. Now, the last remaining humans fight for survival--and to take back what's theirs. Junior, a robotics expert, tinkers quietly underground. With dozens of machine kills under his belt, he knows the enemy inside and out. Alpha0verride, a reclusive black hat hacker, uses the skills acquired over a life of shady activity to outwit the hyper-intelligent machines swarming in on her. Brick, a special forces operator and one of the few Pentagon survivors, fights his inner demons to embark on the most important mission of his life. Together they are humanity's last, best hope--if they can only find each other in time. From the Author First, I brought you the cult classic, Day by Day Armageddon, where we both journeyed alongside the unnamed survivor as he trekked across the bleak landscapes of the undead. Some time after the Great Recession, I strived to accurately depict the bedlam of a post-grid down United States in Tomorrow War--An alternate timeline where a jack boot on the throat of humanity is only one black swan event away. Now, after years of world building, writing and editing in my attic, Trilobyte is ready for you, my beloved reader. Some might call it a warning of what is to come if we aren't careful with our creations. Trilobyte is the most terrifying thing I have ever written. They are closer than you think. They will be trillions. They will come for you. Lock your doors and load those rail guns. The machines are here.
Trilobite
Author: Richard Fortey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706216
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375706216
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures. Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five hundred million years ago. As bewilderingly diverse then as the beetle is today, they survived in the arctic or the tropics, were spiky or smooth, were large as lobsters or small as fleas. And because they flourished for three hundred million years, they can be used to glimpse a less evolved world of ancient continents and vanished oceans. Erudite and entertaining, this book is a uniquely exuberant homage to a fabulously singular species.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Author: Harold Goldberg
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307463559
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon. Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from curiosities to fads to trends to one of the world's most popular forms of mass entertainment. But as the gaming industry grows in numerous directions and everyone talks about the advance of the moment, few explore and seek to understand the forces behind this profound evolution. How did we get from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto? How exactly did gaming become a $50 billion industry and a dominant pop culture form? What are the stories, the people, the innovations, and the fascinations behind this incredible growth? Through extensive interviews with gaming's greatest innovators, both its icons and those unfairly forgotten by history, All Your Base Are Belong To Us sets out to answer these questions, exposing the creativity, odd theories--and passion--behind the twenty-first century's fastest-growing medium. Go inside the creation of: Grand Theft Auto * World of Warcraft * Bioshock * Kings Quest * Bejeweled * Madden Football * Super Mario Brothers * Myst * Pong * Donkey Kong * Crash Bandicoot * The 7th Guest * Tetris * Shadow Complex * Everquest * The Sims * And many more!
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307463559
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon. Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from curiosities to fads to trends to one of the world's most popular forms of mass entertainment. But as the gaming industry grows in numerous directions and everyone talks about the advance of the moment, few explore and seek to understand the forces behind this profound evolution. How did we get from Space Invaders to Grand Theft Auto? How exactly did gaming become a $50 billion industry and a dominant pop culture form? What are the stories, the people, the innovations, and the fascinations behind this incredible growth? Through extensive interviews with gaming's greatest innovators, both its icons and those unfairly forgotten by history, All Your Base Are Belong To Us sets out to answer these questions, exposing the creativity, odd theories--and passion--behind the twenty-first century's fastest-growing medium. Go inside the creation of: Grand Theft Auto * World of Warcraft * Bioshock * Kings Quest * Bejeweled * Madden Football * Super Mario Brothers * Myst * Pong * Donkey Kong * Crash Bandicoot * The 7th Guest * Tetris * Shadow Complex * Everquest * The Sims * And many more!
Signal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Tomorrow War
Author: J. L. Bourne
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145162915X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
J.L. Bourne’s apocalyptic novel Day by Day Armageddon was praised by #1 bestseller Brad Thor as “so real, so terrifying…that I slept with two loaded Glocks under my pillow.” In this ultrarealistic military thriller, the collapse of America’s power grid threatens the world’s fate—and only those prepared for the ultimate catastrophe will survive. On an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative unwittingly triggers an incredible event that unleashes a weapon with the power to destroy the moral fabric of humanity. As the crisis unfolds, hyperinflation cripples the US economy. Families struggle to find food, water, and electricity. Post-war armored military vehicles patrol the streets as martial law is imposed. The US government appears to offer salvation, but there is a sinister catch... One man stands up to push back against a high tech, tyrannical enemy hell-bent on ripping liberty from the pages of future history. But as vital supplies and makeshift weaponry are running out, so is time…and he will have to use every resource and survival tactic to fight for survival: for himself and his home.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145162915X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
J.L. Bourne’s apocalyptic novel Day by Day Armageddon was praised by #1 bestseller Brad Thor as “so real, so terrifying…that I slept with two loaded Glocks under my pillow.” In this ultrarealistic military thriller, the collapse of America’s power grid threatens the world’s fate—and only those prepared for the ultimate catastrophe will survive. On an unacknowledged mission inside the Syrian border, a government operative unwittingly triggers an incredible event that unleashes a weapon with the power to destroy the moral fabric of humanity. As the crisis unfolds, hyperinflation cripples the US economy. Families struggle to find food, water, and electricity. Post-war armored military vehicles patrol the streets as martial law is imposed. The US government appears to offer salvation, but there is a sinister catch... One man stands up to push back against a high tech, tyrannical enemy hell-bent on ripping liberty from the pages of future history. But as vital supplies and makeshift weaponry are running out, so is time…and he will have to use every resource and survival tactic to fight for survival: for himself and his home.
Biophysics of Computation
Author: Christof Koch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195181999
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion, using richly detailed experimental and theoretical findings from cellular biophysics to explain the repertoire of computational functions available to single neurons. The author shows how individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, or delay synaptic inputs and how information can be encoded in the voltage across the membrane, in the intracellular calcium concentration, or in the timing of individual spikes.Key topics covered include the linear cable equation; cable theory as applied to passive dendritic trees and dendritic spines; chemical and electrical synapses and how to treat them from a computational point of view; nonlinear interactions of synaptic input in passive and active dendritic trees; the Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potential generation and propagation; phase space analysis; linking stochastic ionic channels to membrane-dependent currents; calcium and potassium currents and their role in information processing; the role of diffusion, buffering and binding of calcium, and other messenger systems in information processing and storage; short- and long-term models of synaptic plasticity; simplified models of single cells; stochastic aspects of neuronal firing; the nature of the neuronal code; and unconventional models of sub-cellular computation.Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons serves as an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in cellular biophysics, computational neuroscience, and neural networks, and will appeal to students and professionals in neuroscience, electrical and computer engineering, and physics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195181999
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Neural network research often builds on the fiction that neurons are simple linear threshold units, completely neglecting the highly dynamic and complex nature of synapses, dendrites, and voltage-dependent ionic currents. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons challenges this notion, using richly detailed experimental and theoretical findings from cellular biophysics to explain the repertoire of computational functions available to single neurons. The author shows how individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, or delay synaptic inputs and how information can be encoded in the voltage across the membrane, in the intracellular calcium concentration, or in the timing of individual spikes.Key topics covered include the linear cable equation; cable theory as applied to passive dendritic trees and dendritic spines; chemical and electrical synapses and how to treat them from a computational point of view; nonlinear interactions of synaptic input in passive and active dendritic trees; the Hodgkin-Huxley model of action potential generation and propagation; phase space analysis; linking stochastic ionic channels to membrane-dependent currents; calcium and potassium currents and their role in information processing; the role of diffusion, buffering and binding of calcium, and other messenger systems in information processing and storage; short- and long-term models of synaptic plasticity; simplified models of single cells; stochastic aspects of neuronal firing; the nature of the neuronal code; and unconventional models of sub-cellular computation.Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons serves as an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in cellular biophysics, computational neuroscience, and neural networks, and will appeal to students and professionals in neuroscience, electrical and computer engineering, and physics.
Billboard
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Life
Author: Richard Fortey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761185
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens. Ranging across multiple scientific disciplines, explicating in wonderfully clear and refreshing prose their findings and arguments--about the origins of life, the causes of species extinctions and the first appearance of man--Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won. Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761185
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils. With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard Fortey guides us from the barren globe spinning in space, through the very earliest signs of life in the sulphurous hot springs and volcanic vents of the young planet, the appearance of cells, the slow creation of an atmosphere and the evolution of myriad forms of plants and animals that could then be sustained, including the magnificent era of the dinosaurs, and on to the last moment before the debut of Homo sapiens. Ranging across multiple scientific disciplines, explicating in wonderfully clear and refreshing prose their findings and arguments--about the origins of life, the causes of species extinctions and the first appearance of man--Fortey weaves this history out of the most delicate traceries left in rock, stone and earth. He also explains how, on each aspect of nature and life, scientists have reached the understanding we have today, who made the key discoveries, who their opponents were and why certain ideas won. Brimful of wit, fascinating personal experience and high scholarship, this book may well be our best introduction yet to the complex history of life on Earth. A Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection With 32 pages of photographs
The Video Game Explosion
Author: Mark J. P. Wolf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031308243X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond traces the growth of a global phenomenon that has become an integral part of popular culture today. All aspects of video games and gaming culture are covered inside this engaging reference, including the leading video game innovators, the technological advances that made the games of the late 1970s and those of today possible, the corporations that won and lost billions of dollars pursing this lucrative market, arcade culture, as well as the demise of free-standing video consoles and the rise of home-based and hand-held gaming devices. In the United States alone, the video game industry raked in an astonishing $12.5 billion last year, and shows no signs of slowing. Once dismissed as a fleeting fad of the young and frivolous, this booming industry has not only proven its staying power, but promises to continue driving the future of new media and emerging technologies. Today video games have become a limitless and multifaceted medium through which Fortune 50 corporations and Hollywood visionaries alike are reaching broader global audiences and influencing cultural trends at a rate unmatched by any other media.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031308243X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond traces the growth of a global phenomenon that has become an integral part of popular culture today. All aspects of video games and gaming culture are covered inside this engaging reference, including the leading video game innovators, the technological advances that made the games of the late 1970s and those of today possible, the corporations that won and lost billions of dollars pursing this lucrative market, arcade culture, as well as the demise of free-standing video consoles and the rise of home-based and hand-held gaming devices. In the United States alone, the video game industry raked in an astonishing $12.5 billion last year, and shows no signs of slowing. Once dismissed as a fleeting fad of the young and frivolous, this booming industry has not only proven its staying power, but promises to continue driving the future of new media and emerging technologies. Today video games have become a limitless and multifaceted medium through which Fortune 50 corporations and Hollywood visionaries alike are reaching broader global audiences and influencing cultural trends at a rate unmatched by any other media.
Welcome The Newbies
Author: Drew Wordloner
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784620823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Cyberspace City is overpopulated and corrupted. An Elite group of CyberCriminals want to take over. An administrator is held captive by his past. Four Cyberheroes will rise to make an Empire fall! But in Cyberspace, is all what it seems? Welcome to the first instalment of sci-fi series 'Psycho Webisodes'. Welcome The Newbies is an action-adventure novel featuring a group of unlikely Cyberheroes, namely a cynical administrator Dr. Burrows, a bumbling occult detective Captain Bryan, a socially awkward genius Mr.Webz, a crash-test android Dullhard and a 4'8" African-American armourer Chip Micro. When Dr. Burrows is kidnapped by mysterious skull entities, the team must find out why they took him and by whom, although their efforts are thwarted when Cyberheroes across the huge interconnected multicultural megalopolis are deleted like flies in the web. Even so, in high-octane action they soon find the answers they’re looking for! Meanwhile, Burrows himself must face his unpleasant past as an elite group of CyberCriminals known as The Newbies plan to embark on a New World Order by taking over the worldwide web. With the odds against them in this action packed-saga, can the Cyberheroes rescue Dr. Burrows and save Cyberspace City from tyranny? Login to find out. Welcome The Newbies is a satire on 1980s action movies and current comic book films, set in the world of Cyberspace City, that will appeal primarily to sci-fi readers and fans of adventure novels.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784620823
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Cyberspace City is overpopulated and corrupted. An Elite group of CyberCriminals want to take over. An administrator is held captive by his past. Four Cyberheroes will rise to make an Empire fall! But in Cyberspace, is all what it seems? Welcome to the first instalment of sci-fi series 'Psycho Webisodes'. Welcome The Newbies is an action-adventure novel featuring a group of unlikely Cyberheroes, namely a cynical administrator Dr. Burrows, a bumbling occult detective Captain Bryan, a socially awkward genius Mr.Webz, a crash-test android Dullhard and a 4'8" African-American armourer Chip Micro. When Dr. Burrows is kidnapped by mysterious skull entities, the team must find out why they took him and by whom, although their efforts are thwarted when Cyberheroes across the huge interconnected multicultural megalopolis are deleted like flies in the web. Even so, in high-octane action they soon find the answers they’re looking for! Meanwhile, Burrows himself must face his unpleasant past as an elite group of CyberCriminals known as The Newbies plan to embark on a New World Order by taking over the worldwide web. With the odds against them in this action packed-saga, can the Cyberheroes rescue Dr. Burrows and save Cyberspace City from tyranny? Login to find out. Welcome The Newbies is a satire on 1980s action movies and current comic book films, set in the world of Cyberspace City, that will appeal primarily to sci-fi readers and fans of adventure novels.