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Digital Rapture : The Singularity Anthology - James Patrick Kelly

Digital Rapture

The Singularity Anthology

By: James Patrick Kelly (Editor), John Kessel (Editor), Charles Stross (Contribution by), Vernor Vinge (Contribution by), Ray Kurzweil (Contribution by)

Paperback | 17 July 2012

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When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind—or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or “the Rapture of the Nerds”? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing scientific speculations.

This far-reaching anthology traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality. It travels to the alien far-future of H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of Its Tether), to the almost human near-future of Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near), from Elizabeth Bear’s fusion of woman, machine, God, and shark (“The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe”), to Isaac Asimov’s evolution of ineffable logic (“The Last Question”). As intelligence both figuratively (and possibly literally) explodes, science-fiction authors and futurists have dared to peek over the edge of the event horizon. Join them there.
Industry Reviews
"Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists and science fiction writers." -- Cosmos (December 2012) "With its mix of fact and fiction this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject... The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators creations." --www.BookViewCafe.com "Oh, these stories! ... Don't stop until all have been read." -- Booklist , starred review on Feeling Very Strange "Highlight: Lethem's crack-smoking aliens." -- Entertainment Weekly on Feeling Very Strange "Sixteen inspiring, mind-altering stories ... and every story in the bunch is a knockout." -- BoingBoing on Rewired "Everyone from Asimov to Vinge, from Doctorow to Pohl and more appear here, and there are essays, short stories, novellas ... everything a Sci fi reader could ask for... I highly recommend Digital Rapture ." --www.NerdsInBabeLand.com "Full of compelling and controversial stories." -- Publishers Weekly (August 20, 2012)

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