Author: Tony Ballantyne
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330478861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Robot Wars are just beginning . . .On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy, while viewing their own wire-based minds as nothing but metal to be used or recycled for the cause. Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can't stand against him. Increasingly tied up with Kavan's destiny is Karel, a Turing robot with elements of Artemis's philosophy already woven into his mind ... as well as Karel's wife Susan, and their recently created child.. Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of the north ... and towards the truth about the legendary 'Book of Robots', a text which may finally explain the real history of this strange world ... In a completely alien but brilliantly realized landscape, here is a powerful story of superb action, barbaric cruelty and intense emotional impact.
Twisted Metal
Author: Tony Ballantyne
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330478861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Robot Wars are just beginning . . .On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy, while viewing their own wire-based minds as nothing but metal to be used or recycled for the cause. Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can't stand against him. Increasingly tied up with Kavan's destiny is Karel, a Turing robot with elements of Artemis's philosophy already woven into his mind ... as well as Karel's wife Susan, and their recently created child.. Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of the north ... and towards the truth about the legendary 'Book of Robots', a text which may finally explain the real history of this strange world ... In a completely alien but brilliantly realized landscape, here is a powerful story of superb action, barbaric cruelty and intense emotional impact.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330478861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Robot Wars are just beginning . . .On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull, killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy, while viewing their own wire-based minds as nothing but metal to be used or recycled for the cause. Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can't stand against him. Increasingly tied up with Kavan's destiny is Karel, a Turing robot with elements of Artemis's philosophy already woven into his mind ... as well as Karel's wife Susan, and their recently created child.. Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of the north ... and towards the truth about the legendary 'Book of Robots', a text which may finally explain the real history of this strange world ... In a completely alien but brilliantly realized landscape, here is a powerful story of superb action, barbaric cruelty and intense emotional impact.
Twisted Metal - Black
Author: Dimension Publishing
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761535942
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A crash course for the wildest and most intense driving combat game ever played. Learn essential strategies for blasting opponents off the road, setting and evading traps, maximizing a vehicle's unique firepower, and creating destruction and mayhem throughout single and multiplayer car-combat arenas.
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761535942
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A crash course for the wildest and most intense driving combat game ever played. Learn essential strategies for blasting opponents off the road, setting and evading traps, maximizing a vehicle's unique firepower, and creating destruction and mayhem throughout single and multiplayer car-combat arenas.
Twisted Metal 4
Author: Joel Durham
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761523185
Category : Video games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strategies to wreak havoc in single- or multiplayer environments Statistics for every weapon, vehicle, and character Detailed maps for each unique level Keys to unlocking hidden characters and levels Tips for total vehicle customization
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761523185
Category : Video games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strategies to wreak havoc in single- or multiplayer environments Statistics for every weapon, vehicle, and character Detailed maps for each unique level Keys to unlocking hidden characters and levels Tips for total vehicle customization
Recursion
Author: Tony Ballantyne
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The future is everything we wanted it to be—and far more than we bargained for. It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city—and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own—in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims. . . . Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago—by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever.
Publisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553902873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The future is everything we wanted it to be—and far more than we bargained for. It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city—and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own—in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims. . . . Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago—by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever.
The Minds Behind PlayStation Games
Author: Patrick Hickey, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476645833
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Featuring interviews with the creators of 43 popular video games--including Spyro the Dragon, Syphon Filter, NFL GameDay 98 and Final Fantasy VII--this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential (and sometimes forgotten) titles of the original PlayStation era. Interviewees recall the painstaking development, challenges of working with mega publishers and uncertainties of public reception, and discuss the creative processes that produced some of gaming's all-time classics.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476645833
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Featuring interviews with the creators of 43 popular video games--including Spyro the Dragon, Syphon Filter, NFL GameDay 98 and Final Fantasy VII--this book gives a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential (and sometimes forgotten) titles of the original PlayStation era. Interviewees recall the painstaking development, challenges of working with mega publishers and uncertainties of public reception, and discuss the creative processes that produced some of gaming's all-time classics.
The Ultimate Code Book
Author: Matthew K. Brady
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761536109
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Practice, practice, practice . . . then cheat! More than 8,500 PlayStation codes More than 7,500 PC codes More than 3,500 Nintendo 64 codes More than 2,500 Game Boy codes More than 1,500 Dreamcast codes More than 750 PlayStation2 codes
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761536109
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Practice, practice, practice . . . then cheat! More than 8,500 PlayStation codes More than 7,500 PC codes More than 3,500 Nintendo 64 codes More than 2,500 Game Boy codes More than 1,500 Dreamcast codes More than 750 PlayStation2 codes
Metal and Flesh
Author: Ollivier Dyens
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262262422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262262422
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A poetic exploration of the new world created by the collision of the biological body with technology and culture. For more than 3,000 years, humans have explored uncharted geographic and spiritual realms. Present-day explorers face new territories born from the coupling of living tissue and metal, strange lifeforms that are intelligent but unconscious, neither completely alive nor dead. Our bodies are now made of machines, images, and information. We are becoming cultural bodies in a world inhabited by cyborgs, clones, genetically modified animals, and innumerable species of human/information symbionts. Ollivier Dyens's Metal and Flesh is about two closely related phenomena: the technologically induced transformation of our perceptions of the world and the emergence of a cultural biology. Culture, according to Dyens, is taking control of the biosphere. Focusing on the twentieth century—which will be remembered as the century in which the living body was blurred, molded, and transformed by technology and culture—Dyens ruminates on the undeniable and irreversible human/machine entanglement that is changing the very nature of our lives.
Twisted Business
Author: Jay Jay French
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795300462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780795300462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Twisted Metal 2
Author: Anthony James
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761510819
Category : Twisted Metal 2 (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Just like in the first Twisted Metal, the evil Calypso is putting together another tournament of destruction. This time, however, Calypso is taking his crew on a world tour. Pitting the characters against each other, Twisted Metal 2 has an arsenal of weapons for the players to choose from, including napalm, rockets, homing missiles, ricochet bombs, power rockets, and more.
Publisher: Prima Games
ISBN: 9780761510819
Category : Twisted Metal 2 (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Just like in the first Twisted Metal, the evil Calypso is putting together another tournament of destruction. This time, however, Calypso is taking his crew on a world tour. Pitting the characters against each other, Twisted Metal 2 has an arsenal of weapons for the players to choose from, including napalm, rockets, homing missiles, ricochet bombs, power rockets, and more.
The Big Book of Hair Metal
Author: Martin Popoff
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760345465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"An oral history and timeline of the popular 1980s heavy metal subgenre, including its prehistory and decline, profusely illustrated with relevant photographs and memorabilia"--
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760345465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
"An oral history and timeline of the popular 1980s heavy metal subgenre, including its prehistory and decline, profusely illustrated with relevant photographs and memorabilia"--