Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century. Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick it obscures the sun. The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander … and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple. So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors. The Rapture of the Nerds is a brilliant collaboration by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross, two of the defining personalities of post-cyberpunk science fiction.

The Rapture of the Nerds

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live through a bioweapon attack or to have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok. "Anda's Game" is a spin on the bizarre new phenomenon of "cyber sweatshops," in which people are paid very low wages to play online games all day in order to generate in-game wealth, which can be converted into actual money. Another tale tells of the heroic exploits of "sysadmins"—systems administrators—as they defend the cyberworld, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. And yes, there is a story about zombies too.

Overclocked

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings—wings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep—well on their way to starvation because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned … bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him alone—and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He’s doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world. Why? Because Art is an industrial saboteur. He may live in London and work for an EU telecommunications megacorp, but Art’s real home is the Eastern Standard Tribe. Instant wireless communication puts everyone in touch with everyone else, twenty-four hours a day. But one thing hasn’t changed: the need for sleep. The world is slowly splintering into tribes held together by a common time zone. Art is working to humiliate the Greenwich Mean Tribe to the benefit of his own people. But in a world without boundaries, nothing can be taken for granted—not happiness, not money, and most certainly not love … which might explain why Art finds himself stranded on the roof of an insane asylum outside of Boston.

Eastern Standard Tribe

One of the web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From extolling the Etsy makerverse to excoriating Apple for dumbing down technology while creating an information monopoly, each unique piece is brief, witty, and at the cutting edge of tech. Now a stay-at-home dad as well as an international activist, Doctorow writes as eloquently about creating real-time Internet theater with his daughter as he does while lambasting the corporations that want to profit from inherent intellectual freedoms.

Context

Hailed by Bruce Sterling as a "political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek," Cory Doctorow is the web's most celebrated high-tech pop-culture maven. Content is the first collection of Doctorow's infamous articles, essays, and polemics. Here's why Microsoft should stop treating its customers as criminals (through relentless digital-rights management); how America chose copyright and Happy Meal toys over jobs; why Facebook is taking a faceplant; how Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; and, of course, why free e-books kick ass. Accessible to geeks and noobs (if you're not sure what that means, it's you) alike, Content is a must-have compilation from Cory Doctorow, who will be glad to take you along for the ride as he effortlessly surfs the zeitgeist.

Content

Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Featuring new and classic stories from Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ursula Vernon and more. From editors Mur Laffterty and S.B. Divya comes the science fiction collection of the year, bringing together bestselling authors in celebration of the publishing phenomenon that is, Escape Pod.

Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology

Die Storys, wie immer vom Feinsten: * Tino Falke: Im Bärental * T. Elling: Die letzte Jungfrau * Tom Turtschi: Die Pinocchio-Abteilung * J. A. Hagen: Das Ebenbild * Moritz Greenman: Spiegelzeit * Uwe Post: … und mir wird nichts mangeln * Frank Hebben: Am letzten Tag * Norbert Stöbe: Expedition 13b/Regalis * Peter Stohl: Keine Maßnahmen erforderlich * Martin Wambsganß: Geifer Mit einer Gaststory aus Kanada von * Louis B. Shalako: Anna Der Sekundärteil mit dem Schwerpunkt Simulationshypothese: * Thomas A. Sieber: Die ultimative Verschwörungshypothese * Erfan Kasraie: Science-Fiction, philosophische Hypothese oder Bullshit? Eine philosophische Untersuchung der Simulationshypothese * Fabian Vogt: Die beste aller Simulationen. Ein theologischer Streifzug durch die Möglichkeit der Wirklichkeit * Wolfgang Mörth: Die Gummiwelt-Illusion Mit Nachrufen auf: * Karl Smith: Erinnerung an Syd Mead 1933–2019 * Cory Doctorow: RIP Mike Resnick sowie einem Vorwort vom Verleger, einem Geständnis des Grafikredakteurs, einem Titelbild von Lothar Bauer und Illustrationen von Gerd Frey, Christian Günther, Detlef Klewer, Victoria Sack, Christine Schlicht, Si-yü Steuber und Michael Wittmann.

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O que o digital poder oferecer como novas possibilidades à leitura, à escrita e à publicação? Como os livros escritos, produzidos, distribuídos e lidos de forma digital — livres de restrições de estoque, ponto de venda, matérias-primas e território — afetam (contribuem ou ameaçam, de acordo com o ponto de vista) nossa relação com o texto, a produção e a difusão da cultura? E quais as implicações — econômicas, sociais e morais — do digital na cadeia produtiva do livro e na reconfiguração de seus agentes: autores, editores, livreiros, bibliotecários, professores? Em 10 ensaios, profissionais da palavra, entre autores, livreiros e editores, comentam sobre as transformações pelas quais estamos passando e apontam tendências, oportunidades (e riscos) para as novas formas como iremos escrever, disseminar e ler nossas ideias. Da redefinição do papel do bibliotecário na era da informação imediata às novas plataformas para a criação literária; da relação das livrarias com o produto digital à pirataria de textos e à dissipação da autoria individual — análise, reflexão e considerações práticas feitas por quem vive pela palavra escrita, para um futuro que já chegou.

Livro Livre

Em um futuro próximo, Jimmy, um pré-adolescente trans-humano, caça wumpus — monstros mecânicos que transformam matéria inorgânica em solo arável — e defende a última cidade sobre a Terra, preservada como relíquia da Era da Ciência. Quando se depara com uma menina, de "carne", do grupo rival dos Ecochatos, Jimmy terá que escolher entre a imortalidade e o sexo, em uma das mais ousadas histórias de Cory Doctorow, autor bestseller do New York Times com o romance Pequeno irmão .

Nosso Belo Amanhã

Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza (conocido por sus amigos como Hubert, Etc) era demasiado viejo para estar en esa fiesta comunista. Pero después de ver el desmoronamiento de la sociedad moderna, no le queda otro sitio donde estar, excepto entre la escoria de jóvenes descontentos que se pasan la noche de fiesta y desprecian a las ovejas que ven por la mañana. Después de conocer a Natalie, una heredera muy rica que intenta escapar de las garras de su represivo padre, los dos deciden renunciar por completo a la sociedad formal y marcharse. Después de todo, ahora que cualquiera puede diseñar e imprimir las necesidades básicas de la vida -alimentación, ropa, refugio- desde un ordenador, parece que hay pocas razones para trabajar dentro del sistema. Sigue siendo un mundo peligroso, las tierras vacías destrozadas por el cambio climático, las ciudades muertas ahuecadas por la huida industrial, las sombras que esconden a los depredadores, tanto animales como humanos. Sin embargo, cuando los pioneros fugitivos prosperan, más gente se une a ellos. Entonces, los caminantes descubren lo único que los ultrarricos nunca han podido comprar: cómo vencer a la muerte. Ahora es la guerra, una guerra que pondrá el mundo patas arriba. Fascinante, conmovedor y con un humor negro, Walkaway es un thriller de ciencia ficción multigeneracional sobre los desgarradores cambios de los próximos cien años... y las personas muy humanas que vivirán sus consecuencias.

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Walkaway

'Radicalizado' son cuatro novelas de ciencia ficción urgentes sobre el presente y el futuro de Estados Unidos en un solo libro. Contadas a través de una de las voces del género más en boga de nuestra generación, 'Radicalizado' es una oportuna colección compuesta por cuatro novelas de ciencia ficción conectadas por visiones sociales, tecnológicas y económicas de la actualidad y de lo que podría ser Estados Unidos en un futuro cercano. 'Pan no autorizado' es una historia sobre la inmigración, la toxicidad de la estratificación económica y tecnológica, y los jóvenes y los oprimidos que luchan contra todo pronóstico para sobrevivir y prosperar. En 'Minoría Modelo', una figura similar a la de Superman intenta rectificar la corrupción de las fuerzas policiales que durante mucho tiempo creyó erróneamente que protegían a los indefensos... sólo para descubrir que sus esfuerzos afectan negativamente a sus víctimas. 'Radicalizado' es la historia de un levantamiento violento en la dark web contra las compañías de seguros, contada desde la perspectiva de un hombre desesperado por conseguir financiación para un medicamento experimental que podría curar el cáncer terminal de su esposa. La cuarta historia, 'La máscara de la muerte roja', se remonta al libro 'Walkaway' de Doctorow, abordando cuestiones de supervivencia frente a la comunidad.

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