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Loading... Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (edition 2014)by Ed Finn (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Three stars is an average; some stories were self-important and tiresome ("Atmosphæra Incognita", "A Hotel in Antarctica," “The Man Who Sold the Stars”, "The Man Who Sold the Moon") but some had ideas I'll be thinking about for a long time ("Girl in Wave: Wave in Girl", "Entanglement", "Degrees of Freedom" and especially "Covenant.") This is a book of short stories born of Project Hieroglyph: http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/ This is seriously one of the most exciting things I've heard about in quite awhile. A bunch of sci-fi authors and a bunch of scientists are getting together and saying "We're sick of these dystopias that have become so popular! Let's look for ways the world could be made a better place in the near term!" This is a big part of what sci-fi is all about, to me. Digging down into the individual stories in the book: some are "meh," a couple left me wondering how the future they're painting is a "better world," but many of them are absolutely mindblowingly amazing. More than once, I had to just put the book down after I'd finished a story, and process it and think about it for a long time before I could even think about picking anything else up. Some of these futures, some of these technologies, I WANT! So! Much! I'll try to write up some specific thoughts on the individual stories here; it may be a couple of weeks though: http://ciaracatscifi.blogspot.com/ Quite a few of these stories will be on my Hugo nomination short list. no reviews | add a review
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Born of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable collection unites a diverse group of celebrated authors, prominent scientists, and creative visionaries--among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Charlie Jane Anders, David Brin, and Neal Stephenson--who contributed works of "techno-optimism" that challenge us to imagine fully, think broadly, and do Big Stuff. Inside this volume you will find marvels of imagination and possibility, including a steel tower so tall that the stratosphere is just an elevator ride away, a drone-powered Internet, crowdfunded robots descending on the moon, cities that work like a single cell of algae powered entirely by the sun, and much more. No library descriptions found. |
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The stories in this collection considered futures with changes in social, environmental, & economic conditions. I found those that tackled the former two to be more compelling than those that focused more on the last, though that is likely due to my own personal interests. Even those tales with concepts I found less interesting, I still found entertaining.
At the end of each story, the editors provide URLs to extra content - e.g., discussions & technical papers on the technology in each story. I sure wish these URLs still worked ( )