Edward M. Lerner
Список книг автора Edward M. LernerCreative Destruction: Science Fiction Stories
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION presents 8 science fiction stories – including two short novels – by bestselling author Edward M. Lerner. All deal with the future of technology and computing. <P> The author writes: «Computing is mere decades young, a set of technologies we have scarcely begun to develop. It's already been quite a ride. Now: Imagine every gadget around you becoming ever faster, cheaper, tinier, more interconnected, more intelligent . . . especially more intelligent. The stories in Creative Destruction explore what we could face in the next half century or so: artificial intelligence, malicious software to makes us nostalgic for mere viruses, ever-more-perfect virtual reality, direct neural interfaces to computers, ubiquitous networks, and more. The internet. That was nothing.»<P> Included are:<P> INTRODUCTION, by Stanley Schmidt<BR> FOREWORD, by Edward M. Lerner<BR> THE DAY OF THE RFIDS<BR> SURVIVAL INSTINCT<BR> WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN<BR> BY THE RULES<BR> INIQUITOUS COMPUTING<BR> CATCH A FALLING STAR<BR> SETTLEMENT<BR> CREATIVE DESTRUCTION<P>
A Stranger in Paradise
A Stranger in Paradise, by Edward M. Lerner, collects five of the bestselling author's science fiction stories: The Night of the RFIDs, Two kinds of People, Better the Devil You Know, Small Business, and A Stranger in Paradise.
Countdown to Armageddon
Hezbollah has obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it-and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to Hezbollah, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back to a turning point in European history. Harry Bowen, an American physicist, and Terrence Ambling, a British agent turned historian, are determined to stop Abdul Faisel and prevent the nullification of all Western civilization. Their mission can be accomplished, if at all, only in the darkest of the Dark Ages. And there, too, time is running out…