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Future Bright, Future Grimm: Transhumanist Tales for Mother Nature's Offspring

Autor D. J. MacLennan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2021
Magic matters to people. Fairy tales matter. They're all coming true.


Transhumanism - the rising global movement to supercharge human evolution with radical tech - heralds body- and mind-bending personal transformation. Yet it feels curiously familiar, like the dizzying fears and fantasies we probed in Germanic folklore as children.


Future Bright, Future Grimm draws upon the odd, abrupt, often violent tales of the Brothers Grimm to summon transhumanist tomorrows of astounding grace and danger. The adventurers, magicians and monsters who lurk here are we and our mind-children - amplified, augmented, immortalised in rebooted fables with the edgiest of twists.


This is magical realism inspired by the transfiguring technological sorcery that our species seems driven to conjure. Where the improbability of traditional fantasy meets the wildest possibilities of modern science and the coming 'Singularity'.


Open doors - some dazzling, some dystopian - to enchanted mindscapes, unhinged. A storybook for changelings, whose humble once-upon-a-times now spell truly outlandish ever-afters.
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ISBN-13: 9780993334450
ISBN-10: 0993334458
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC

Notă biografică

D.J. MacLennan writes fiction and non-fiction on speculative science and technology topics.His first book Frozen to Life, about his decision to sign up for head-only cryopreservation, featured in 'The Immortality Project', a cover story in the influential New Scientist magazine.Born on Benbecula in the far Western Isles of Scotland, he grew up, and still lives, on the mist-veiled Isle of Skye.