Woken Furies
Author : Richard Morgan
Publisher :
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 0575081279
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (81 users)
Download or read book Woken Furies PDF or another Format written by Richard Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction. Returning to Harlan's World to achieve retribution for a lost love, Takeshi Kovacs becomes caught up in political intrigue when he comes to the aid of a woman being hunted by a savage young Envoy who claims that he is Kovacs himself
Woken Furies
Author : Richard Morgan
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-09-18
ISBN 10 : 9780575086081
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (575 users)
Download or read book Woken Furies PDF or another Format written by Richard Morgan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance. Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5% of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas. Try and get above the weather in anything more sophisticated than a helicopter and the Martian orbital platforms will burn you out of the sky. And death doesn't just wait for you in the seas and the skies. On land, from the tropical beaches and swamps of Kossuth to the icy, machine-infested wastes of New Hokkaido the hard won gains of the Quellist revolution have been lost. The First Families, the corporations and the Yakuza have a stranglehold on everything. Embarked on a journey of implacable retribution for a lost love, Kovacs is blown off course and into a maelstrom of political intrigue and technological mystery as the ghosts of Harlan's World and his own violent past rise to claim their due. Quellcrist Falconer is back from the dead, they say, and hunting her down for the First Families is a savage young Envoy called Kovacs who's been in storage ...
Broken Angels
Author : Richard K. Morgan
Publisher : Takeshi Kovacs
Release Date : 2004-03-02
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015058229801
Pages : 392 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (39 users)
Download or read book Broken Angels PDF or another Format written by Richard K. Morgan and published by Takeshi Kovacs. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving as a mercenary in a distasteful war, Takeshi Kovacs joins a covert team that aims to secure a coveted archeological prize, an endeavor that ensnares him in a web of treachery and betrayal unlike any he has experienced before. By the author of Altered Carbon. Original.
Download or read book AI and IA PDF or another Format written by Ted Peters and published by ISD LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) or IA (Intelligence Amplification) lead to the extinction of the human race as we know it? Or, will superintelligence lead to utopia? In this collection of thoughtful essays, we must first get clear on the question: is artificial intelligence actually intelligent or not? Only with an affirmative answer could our techies proceed toward their goal: the creation of a superintelligence that leads through transhumanism to a posthuman entity that would replace today's human. Should today's moderately intelligent human species voluntarily go extinct to make way for a more intelligent species to succeed us in evolutionary history? These scientific questions are addressed in this volume in light of their theological, ethical, and social implications.
Representations of Masculinity in Literature and Film
Author : Sara Martín
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-11
ISBN 10 : 9781527559301
Pages : 302 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (527 users)
Download or read book Representations of Masculinity in Literature and Film PDF or another Format written by Sara Martín and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are men represented on the printed page, the stage and the screen? What do these representations say about masculinity in the past, the present, and the future? The twelve essays in this volume explore the different ways in which men and masculinity have been represented, from the plays of William Shakespeare to the science fiction of Richard K. Morgan, passing through classic fiction by Emily Brontë and Charles Dickens, and popular favourites by Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov, without forgetting the Star Wars saga. Collectively, these essays argue that, although much has been written about men, it has been done from a perspective that does not see masculinity as a specific feature in need of critical appraisal. Men need to be made aware of how they are represented in order to alter the toxic patriarchal models handed down to them and even break the extant binary gender models. For that, it is important that men distinguish patriarchy from masculinity, as is done here, and form anti-patriarchal alliances with each other and with women. This book is, then, an invitation to men’s liberation from patriarchy by raising an awareness of its crippling constraints.
What Do I Read Next?
Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Gale / Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2005-10-21
ISBN 10 : 0787690228
Pages : 744 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (69 users)
Download or read book What Do I Read Next? PDF or another Format written by Neil Barron and published by Gale / Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2005-10-21 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides synopses for over 1,500 titles of current popular fiction and recommends other books by such criteria as authors, characters portrayed, time period, geographical setting, or genre
The Transhuman Antihero
Author : Michael Grantham
Publisher : McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-11
ISBN 10 : 9780786494057
Pages : 196 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (786 users)
Download or read book The Transhuman Antihero PDF or another Format written by Michael Grantham and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in science and technology no longer change how we live, they determine it. In the not-too-distant future, techno-scientific developments may make individuals stronger, smarter, healthier and more productive--but to what end? Addressing this question, speculative fiction has created an abundance of transhuman characters, protagonists with extraordinary strength, intelligence or abilities. Often they are antiheroes, openly rejecting--or rejected by--society and acting on immoral or extreme principles that challenge readers to approve, condemn, excuse or explain. This study explores the antihero of speculative fiction as a paradoxical blend of human and transhuman. These protagonists illustrate the dynamics of individual, techno-scientific and societal norms, and blur distinctions between human and machine, biology and technology, right and wrong. Fictional works covered include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Olaf Stapledon's Odd John (1935), Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (1956), William Gibson's Neuromancer (1986), Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen (1986-1987), Richard Morgan's trilogy (Altered Carbon, 2001, Broken Angels, 2003 and Woken Furies 2005) and Black Man (2007).
The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction
Author : Jordan J. Copeland
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-31
ISBN 10 : 9781848880870
Pages : 193 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (848 users)
Download or read book The Projected and Prophetic: Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction PDF or another Format written by Jordan J. Copeland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume document the exchange and development of ideas that comprised the 5th Global Conference on Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction, hosted at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom, in July 2010.
The Politics and Ethics of Identity
Author : Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-30
ISBN 10 : 9781107027657
Pages : 445 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (17 users)
Download or read book The Politics and Ethics of Identity PDF or another Format written by Richard Ned Lebow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the notion of consistent unitary identities, arguing that we are multiple, changing selves, shaped by social contexts and processes.
