Futures from nature
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- Publication date
- 2007
- Topics
- Science fiction, American, Future -- Fiction, Forecasting -- Fiction, Evolution -- Fiction, Evolution, Forecasting, Science fiction, American
- Publisher
- New York : TOR
- Collection
- inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
- Title (alternate script)
- None
- Author (alternate script)
- None
320 pages ; 22 cm
Here are 100 very short stories on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in eight-hundred word modules. All of them are entertaining and as a group they are a startling repository of ideas and attitudes about the future. Appearing in book form fo the first time, these one hundred pieces were originally published in the great science journal, Nature, between 1999 and 2006, as one-page features. That proved very popular with the readers of the journal. This is a unique book, by scientists and writers, of interest to any reader who might like to speculate about the future. With stories from:Arthur C. Clarke; Bruce Sterling; Charles Stross; Cory Doctorow; Greg Bear; Gregory Benford; Oliver Morton; Ian Macleod; Rudy Rucker; Greg Egan; Stephan Baxter; Barrington J. Bayley; Brian Stableford; Frederik Pohl; Vernor Vinge; Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda N. McIntyr; Kim Stanley Robinson; John M. Ford; and eighty more. - Publisher
"A Sci Fi essential book"--Jacket
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
Here are 100 very short stories on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in eight-hundred word modules. All of them are entertaining and as a group they are a startling repository of ideas and attitudes about the future. Appearing in book form fo the first time, these one hundred pieces were originally published in the great science journal, Nature, between 1999 and 2006, as one-page features. That proved very popular with the readers of the journal. This is a unique book, by scientists and writers, of interest to any reader who might like to speculate about the future. With stories from:Arthur C. Clarke; Bruce Sterling; Charles Stross; Cory Doctorow; Greg Bear; Gregory Benford; Oliver Morton; Ian Macleod; Rudy Rucker; Greg Egan; Stephan Baxter; Barrington J. Bayley; Brian Stableford; Frederik Pohl; Vernor Vinge; Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda N. McIntyr; Kim Stanley Robinson; John M. Ford; and eighty more. - Publisher
"A Sci Fi essential book"--Jacket
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
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- Addeddate
- 2018-08-30 10:55:14
- Associated-names
- Gee, Henry, 1962-
- Bookplateleaf
- 0004
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- IA1396323
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- china
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1149259581
urn:lcp:futuresfromnatur0000unse:lcpdf:8aedc7a1-2727-47db-89e1-139b4ca2a363
urn:lcp:futuresfromnatur0000unse:epub:3bf584ad-ffd9-46a7-969f-273ef0925057
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- 0
- Identifier
- futuresfromnatur0000unse
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- ark:/13960/t3909f54c
- Invoice
- 1213
- Isbn
- 9780765318053
0765318059
- Lccn
- 2007024924
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- Openlibrary_edition
- OL10936437M
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- OL8061819W
- Page_number_confidence
- 96.01
- Pages
- 328
- Ppi
- 300
- Republisher_date
- 20181028233551
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- associate-liwentao@archive.org;republisher16.shenzhen@archive.org
- Republisher_time
- 870
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- 20180830120412
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