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Sterling's Misadventures

Autor: Sterling Campbell

Número de Páginas: 197

About the Book In Sterling’s Misadventures, Sterling internally struggles to determine what might be or could be based on decisions made along the way. The relevancy and uniqueness are Sterling's individual ways of dealing with self-awareness and development. Sterling explores themes of childhood experiences and maturity development. About the Author Sterling Campbell’s own life is reflected upon in Sterling’s Misadventures. Campbell grew up at a lake, quit high school, joined the Army, served in Viet Nam, and completed a PhD in business administration. Campbell is currently retired from a career as a CFO and he is married to a lovely lady he met at a slab dance. Campbell and his wife, Marilyn, are retired and reside in the state of Washington. They have two children and five grandchildren.

A Socio-Legal Study of Hacking

Autor: Michael Anthony C. Dizon

Número de Páginas: 268

The relationship between hacking and the law has always been complex and conflict-ridden. This book examines the relations and interactions between hacking and the law with a view to understanding how hackers influence and are influenced by technology laws and policies. In our increasingly digital and connected world where hackers play a significant role in determining the structures, configurations and operations of the networked information society, this book delivers an interdisciplinary study of the practices, norms and values of hackers and how they conflict and correspond with the aims and aspirations of hacking-related laws. Describing and analyzing the legal and normative impact of hacking, as well as proposing new approaches to its regulation and governance, this book makes an essential contribution to understanding the socio-technical changes, and consequent legal challenges, faced by our contemporary connected society.

Ascendancies

Autor: Bruce Sterling

Número de Páginas: 521

Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.” Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display in Ascendancies, a collection of speculative fiction from a world-class world-building futurist, alternate historian, and mad prophet operating at the peak of his extraordinary powers. Here are twenty-four stories that span the illustrious career of the author who, along with William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, injected the word cyberpunk into the science fiction lexicon. These tales not only traverse galaxies and employ mind-boggling technologies, they also cut back across the centuries into a richly imagined past with style and a sharp satiric edge. Sterling’s unparalleled imagination and courageous originality carry the reader into the future universe of the warring Shapers and Mechanists, rival sects of exiled humanity with radically opposed views of human...

Year's Best SF 8

Autor: David G. Hartwell , Kathryn Cramer

Número de Páginas: 516

The best science fiction short stories of 2002 and 2003, selected by David G. Hartwell, one of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first seven volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market format. Here, gathered by David G. Hartwell, one of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from some of the best and brightest names in science fiction, the Year’s Best SF 8 and SF9 is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

ISpy

Autor: Mark Andrejevic

Número de Páginas: 344

A chilling account of the tradeoff we are willing to make between interactive media technologies and the power of others to watch over--and control--us. This brave new world of electronic marketing and consumption actually lulls consumers into blissful ignorance of how that usage can be--and is being--monitored.

Frontiers Past and Future

Autor: Carl Abbott

Número de Páginas: 248

"Abbott offers a fruitful new way to read science fiction, one that also greatly enriches our understanding of western history and its impact on our collective imagination. Detailing the overlap of science fiction and western fiction - especially relating to their mutual interest in and concerns about frontier expansionism - he reveals an unsuspected common ground that informs the writings of both camps." "Reviewing the work of many Hugo and Nebula Award winners, as well as drawing upon popular film and television series (like the Buck Rogers serials), Abbott's study journeys across the far reaches of science fiction's universe."

Mirrorshades

Autor: Bruce Sterling

Número de Páginas: 264

Short stories labeled "Mirroshade," "Neuromanatic," "Cyberpunk," etc. by such authors as Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley and others.

Who Shaped Science Fiction?

Autor: Robert Sabella

Número de Páginas: 308

This book combines the reading public's interest in science fiction with the always popular biography genre. The book contains one hundred concise chapters, each containing a brief biography of one of the most influential figures in the development of modern science fiction as well as a timetable detailing the highlights of the person's life and career. Included are important editors such as John Campbell Jr and Hugo Gernsback; filmmakers such as Gener Roddenberry and Stanley Kubrick; and most importantly, acclaimed writers ranging from historical figures Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and H G Wells to modern masters Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein.

An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures

Autor: Pramod K. Nayar

Número de Páginas: 232

This introduction to cybercultures provides a cutting-edge and much needed guide to the rapidly changing world of new media and communication. Considers cyberculture and new media through contemporary race, gender and sexuality studies and postcolonial theory Offers a clear analysis of some of the most complex issues in cybercultures, including identity, network societies, new geographies, and connectivity Includes discussions of gaming, social networking, geography, net-democracy, aesthetics, popular internet culture, the body, sexuality and politics Examines key questions in the political economy, racialization, gendering and governance of cyberculture

The Internet Complete Reference

Autor: Harley Hahn , Rick Stout

Número de Páginas: 900

A practical and comprehensive guide to the Internet.

Thinking Robots, an Aware Internet, and Cyberpunk Librarians

Autor: Robert Bruce Miller , Milton T. Wolf

Número de Páginas: 212

First published as a briefing packet for attendees of the LITA's President's Program at the 1991 ALA Annual Conference, where it contained 20 brief papers and a bibliography, this volume has been immeasurably enriched by the addition of the papers of the three main speakers futurists Hans Moraver, D

Genealogy of the Baltzly-Polsley Family

Autor: Mrs. Katherine Alice Polsley Bryan , Katherine Alice Polsley Bryan

Número de Páginas: 446

Peter Baltzli married Elizabeth Gessler about 1750 at Langnau, Switzer- land. The family came to America about 1754.

Deep Time of the Media

Autor: Siegfried Zielinski

Número de Páginas: 402

"Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development - dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery. In Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history - fractures in the predictable - that help us see the new in the old."--Book jacket.

Curriculum Visions

Autor: William E. Doll , Noel Gough

Número de Páginas: 336

Curriculum Visions challenges the singular, guiding vision that has dominated Western educational thought for the past four centuries, from Peter Ramus to Ralph Tyler and beyond. Influenced by the spirit of John Dewey, Curriculum Visions moves beyond his ghost to see what he never saw - a playful integration of the scientific, the storied, and the spiritful. In so doing, Curriculum Visions asks each of us to develop our own curricular vision, based on the logic of reason, the personality and culture of society, and the awesomeness and mystery of creation.

Proteus

Autor: Carla Dente

Número de Páginas: 318

The essays in this volume show how authors from Ovid to 20th century science fiction writers have used the concept of metamorphosis to raise fundamental questions about the nature and agency of radical change.

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