Book
Futures from nature
Call Number
- SCIENCE FICTION FUTU (CEN)
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Tor, 2007.
Physical Description
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"A Sci Fi essential book"--Jacket.
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
Contents
- Introduction: nostalgia for the future / Cognitive ability and the light bulb / Don't imitate / Check elastic before jumping / Twenty2 / Under Martian ice / Party smart card / Ram shift phase 2 / A life with a semisent / Damned if you don't / The punishment fits the crime / Toy planes / A concrete example / The aching of Dion Harper / Improving the neighborhood / Omphalosphere: New York 2057 / Picasso's cat / My grandfather's river / Sandcastles: a dystopia / Adam's hot dogs at the end of the world / The party's over / Transport of delight / The perfect lover / Paul DiFilippo
- Printcrime / A brief history of death switches / Only connect / At the zoo / The liquidators / In the days of the comet / Ars longa, vita brevis / Are we not men? / It never rains in VR / Gordy gave me your name / Nostalgia / Spawn of Satan?
- Take over / Speak, geek / Heartwired / The forever kitten / The road to the year 3000 / Operation Tesla / Making the sale / Subpoenaed in Syracuse / Men sell not such in any town / Total internal reflection / Ringing up baby / Semi-autonomous / Product development / I love liver: a romance / Avatars in space / COMP.BASILISK FAQ / Gathering of the clans / Taking good care of myself / Undead again / Words, words, words / My morning glory / Don't mention the "F" word / Meat / The candidate / A modest proposal for the perfection of nature / The Republic of George's Island / The stars my incarnation / The computiful game / Oscar night, 2054 / The visible men / The Albian message / Photons do not lie / Stranger in the night / Tick-tock curly-wurly / Daddy's slight miscalculation / Brain drain / Great unreported discoveries no. 163 / Feeling rejected / The trial of Jeremy Owens / Prometheus unbound, at last / Dreadnought / Falling
- Panpsychism proved / The abdication of Pope Mary III / The charge-up man / From the desk of Jarrod Foster / Pluto story / Madame Bovary, c'est moi / Tuberculosis bacteria join UN / For he on honeydew hath fed... / A man of the theater / Ivory tower / Play it again, Psam / MAXO signals / Golden year / Paratext / Murphy's cat / Win a nobel prize! / A leap of faith / Nadia's nector / Statler pulchrifex / All is not lost / Scott Westerfeld
- The key / The godmother protocols / The great good-bye / Pigs on the wing