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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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Edge of Infinity (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Hannu Rajaniemi, Elizabeth Bear, …
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Featuring the original The Expanse story "Drive" by James S. A.
Corey, the basis for Season 2, Episode 6, "Paradigm Shift" and Pat
Cadigan's Hugo-winning "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi". One
Giant Leap For Mankind Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words
when he became the first human being to step onto another world.
All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer
Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology
that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our
home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie
transformations in Pat Cadigan's Hugo Award-winning "The Girl-Thing
Who Went Out for Sushi" to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald
and Stephen D. Covey's "The Road to NPS," and from the grandiose
vision of Alastair Reynolds' "Vainglory" to the workaday
familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Safety Tests," the
thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human
condition in their race to colonise Earth's nearest neighbours.
Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S.
A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch,
Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra
McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling,Edge
of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.
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World Brain (Paperback)
H. G. Wells, Bruce Sterling
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The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles
Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The Industrial
Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven
cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. Great Britain,
with her calculating-cannons, steam dreadnoughts, machine-guns and
information technology, prepares to better the world's lot ...
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Thomas Demand - Animations (Hardcover)
Thomas Demand; Edited by Carrie Schmitz; Introduction by Jeff Fleming; Michael Fried; Text written by Bruce Sterling
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"Animations" accompanies the first museum exhibition to focus on
the films and videos of the acclaimed contemporary German artist
and photographer Thomas Demand (born 1964). Demand is best known
for his large-scale color photographs of objects or sites taken
from images in the popular media, which he painstakingly
reconstructs in paper. With these new films and videos, Demand has
taken this practice to the next stage, extending his investigations
in to real time and space by animating his paper constructions. The
primary focus of the volume is the two-minute tour de force video
entitled "Pacific Sun," which takes place in a cruise ship bar
during a violent storm at sea. This volume--the first to survey
Demand's films and videos--brings these latest works back full
circle, but as video stills. Also included is a major essay on the
artist by the acclaimed photo critic Michael Fried.
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk
novel
With new commentary by the authors
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by
steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his
Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of
its time. Three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous
with the future: Sybil Gerard--fallen woman, politician's tart,
daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan"
Mallory--explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant--diplomat,
mystic, and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box
of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards
someone wants badly enough to kill for.
Part detective story, part historical thriller, "The Difference
Engine" took the science fiction community by storm when it was
first published twenty years ago. This special anniversary edition
features an Introduction by Cory Doctorow and a collaborative essay
from the authors looking back on their creation. Provocative,
compelling, intensely imagined, this novel is poised to impress a
whole new generation.
A guide to the next great wave of technology-an era of objects so
programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations
of an immaterial system. "Shaping Things is about created objects
and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything,"
writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet
series. He adds: "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small
topic." Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of
shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by
hand, through complex machines, to the current era of "gizmos." New
forms of design and manufacture are appearing that lack historical
precedent, he writes; but the production methods, using archaic
forms of energy and materials that are finite and toxic, are not
sustainable. The future will see a new kind of object; we have the
primitive forms of them now in our pockets and briefcases:
user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable, that
will be sustainable, enhanceable, and uniquely identifiable.
Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future-manufactured
objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they
are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.
Spimes are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and
precisely tracked through space and time. They are made of
substances that can be folded back into the production stream of
future spimes, challenging all of us to become involved in their
production. Spimes are coming, says Sterling. We will need these
objects in order to live; we won't be able to surrender their
advantages without awful consequences. The vision of Shaping Things
is given material form by the intricate design of Lorraine Wild.
Shaping Things is for designers and thinkers, engineers and
scientists, entrepreneurs and financiers; and anyone who wants to
understand and be part of the process of technosocial
transformation.
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OVEREXPOSED (Paperback)
Paolo Cirio, Bruce Sterling, Nato Thompson
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OVEREXPOSED is composed of a series of nine unauthorized photos of
high-ranking U.S. intelligence officials of the NSA, CIA, NI, and
FBI who were related to Edward Snowden's revelations. The
appropriated material was found by monitoring photos and selfies
published on Internet public platforms without the control of the
officials. The images were reproduced with the street art HD
Stencils technique, and they were disseminated onto public walls
throughout major cities. The artwork satirizes the era of
ubiquitous surveillance and overly-mediated political personas by
exposing the officials accountable for secretive mass surveillance
and over-classified intelligence programs. New modes of
circulation, appropriation, contextualization, and technical
reproduction of images are integrated into this artwork.
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical
literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles
have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades.
The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to
promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a
TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the
amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series,
tredition intends to make thousands of international literature
classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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Late Harvest (Hardcover)
Claude D'Anthenaise, William L Fox, Adam Duncan Harris, Joanne Northrup, Snaebjornsdottir Wilson, …
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Late Harvest juxtaposes contemporary art made with taxidermy with
historically significant wildlife paintin gs, resulting in
intriguing parallels and startling aesthetic aesthetic contrasts.
The publication seeks to simultaneously confirm — through
historically - significant wildlife paintings — and subvert —
through contemporary art and photography — viewers’ preconcepti
ons of the place of animals in culture. The richly illustrated
catalogue will feature artists as: Richard Ansdell, David Brooks,
George Browne, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Petah Coyne, Raymond Ching,
Kate Clark, Wim Delvoye, Mark Dion, Elmgreen & Dragset, Carle e
Fernandez, Richard Friese, François Furet, Nicholas Galanin,
George Bouverie Goddard, Damien Hirst, William Hollywood, Idiots
(Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker), Alfred Kowalski, Robert Kuhn ,
Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bruno Liljefors, Polly Morgan, John Newsom, T im
Noble and Sue Webster, Walter Robinson, George Rotig, Carl Rungius,
Yinka Shonibare MBE, David Shrigley, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, Amy
Stein, Archibald Thorburn, Mary Tsiongas, Joseph Wolf, Brigitte
Zieger, Andrew Zuckerman The exhibition Late Harvest is organized
by the Nevada Museum of Art in consultation with the National
Museum of Wildlife Art. It is curated by JoAnne Northrup, Director
of Contemporary Art Initiatives, together with consulting curator
Adam Duncan Harris, Ph.D., Petersen Curator of Art & Research,
National Museum of Wildlife Art.
SHE: Do you like Kipling? HE: I don't know, I've never Kippled If
you've never read Rudyard Kipling's science fiction, then you've
never Kippled.
Having achieved international fame with The Jungle Book, Captains
Courageous, Kim, and his Just So Stories, in 1905 Kipling
serialized a thrilling science fiction novella, With the Night
Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D, in which the reader learns -- while
following the exploits of an intercontinental mail dirigible
battling foul weather -- about a planet-wide Aerial Board of
Control, which enforces a rigid system of command and control not
only in the skies (which are increasingly crowded with every manner
of zeppelin) but in world affairs too.
Kipling got so excited by his own utopian vision that when the
story first appeared in McClure's Magazine, it was accompanied by
phony advertisements for dirigible and aeronautical products that
he'd written, plus other ersatz magazine clippings. In one of these
latter, we read that the Aerial Board of Control had effectively
outlawed war in 1967 -- by reserving to every nation the right of
waging war so long as it does not interfere with traffic and all
that that implies.
This turns out to imply a great deal In Kipling's 1912 followup
story, As Easy As A.B.C., which is set 65 years after With the
Night Mail, we learn just how complete the Aerial Board's control
is over the social and economic affairs of every nation. When a mob
of disgruntled Serviles in the District of Northern Illinois
demands the return of democracy, the A.B.C. sends a team of
troubleshooters (from England, Russia, Japan, and Italy) and a
fleet of 200 zeppelins to take such steps as might be necessary for
the resumption of traffic and all that that implies. Democracy, it
seems, is an impediment to the smooth flow of international
commerce -- so it was abolished during the 20th century, along with
newspapers.
What happens when the A.B.C. troubleshooters confront the
democrats? Trouble
Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe. In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud to offer Sterling's stunning world of the Schismatrix--where Shaper revolutionaries struggle against aristocratic Mechanists for ultimate control of man's destiny. This volume includes the classic full-length novel, Schismatrix, plus thousands of words of mind-bending short fiction.
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club,
enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking
an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe
in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's
hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked
by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the
trail of a notorious bank robber. Set from the text of George M.
Towle's original 1873 translation, this Modern Library Paperback
Classic of Verne's adventure novel comes vividly alive, brilliantly
refl ecting on time, space, and one man's struggle to reach beyond
the bounds of both science and society.
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