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Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology
| Author: | James Patrick Kelly John Kessel |
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Tachyon Publications, 2012 |
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Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Digital Rapture - essay by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
- The Last Question - [Multivac] (1956) - short story by Isaac Asimov
- The Flesh (1929) - essay by J. D. Bernal
- Day Million (1966) - short story by Frederik Pohl
- Thought and Action (1935) - short fiction by Olaf Stapledon
- The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era (1993) - essay by Vernor Vinge
- Hive Mind Man (2012) - novelette by Eileen Gunn and Rudy Rucker
- Sunken Gardens - [Shaper/Mechanist] (1984) - short story by Bruce Sterling
- The Six Epochs (2005) - essay by Ray Kurzweil
- Crystal Nights (2008) - novelette by Greg Egan
- Firewall (2008) - novelette by David D. Levine
- The Cookie Monster (2003) - novella by Vernor Vinge
- Cracklegrackle - [Natural History] (2009) - novelette by Justina Robson
- Nightfall - [Macx Family] (2003) - novelette by Charles Stross
- Coelacanths (2002) - novelette by Robert Reed
- The Great Awakening - [Thought Experiments] (2008) - essay by Rudy Rucker
- True Names (2008) - novella by Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum
- The Server and the Dragon (2010) - short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
- The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe (2006) - short story by Elizabeth Bear
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