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I am a Pulitzer-nominated writer who began as a poet, then shifted to prose during a period of aesthetic and personal crisis in my life. I am interested in how the novelist can gather and curate fascinating facts for the reader and incorporate them into the text. I see writing as a great adventure and investigation into issues of empathy, power, and powerlessness, and the individual in an increasingly technological world.
When I wrote my first novel, I began investigating modern-day technologyārobotics, bioengineering, AI, and information technologyāand have read and worked in this area for over 15 years. It is a pleasure to share some of the books that have informed my own journey.
I love the exquisite writing and haunting narrative in this bookāIshiguroās prose is masterful, his imagination precise and engrossing. He creates characters that are poignant, complex, and caught in a world beyond their control. Issues of bioengineering, of empathy, of powerlessness, are beautifully woven through the whole.
I am moved by how this book marries technology and deep emotion, the dystopian with the palpable reality of todayās world, and the rapidly changing technological milieu we live in.
One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a senseā¦
In an underground coal mine in Northern Germany, over forty scribes who are fluent in different languages have been spared the camps to answer letters to the deadāletters that people were forced to answer before being gassed, assuring relatives that conditions in the camps were good.Ā
I am a Pulitzer-nominated writer who began as a poet, then shifted to prose during a period of aesthetic and personal crisis in my life. I am interested in how the novelist can gather and curate fascinating facts for the reader and incorporate them into the text. I see writing as a great adventure and investigation into issues of empathy, power, and powerlessness, and the individual in an increasingly technological world.
When I wrote my first novel, I began investigating modern-day technologyārobotics, bioengineering, AI, and information technologyāand have read and worked in this area for over 15 years. It is a pleasure to share some of the books that have informed my own journey.
Truly a book for the ages, how could I not recommend this? It is THE iconic book about a constructed being and his consequent travails.
Made by Victor Frankenstein from all sorts of collected detritus, when the monster opens his āyellow, watery eyes,ā the scientist flees from him and never looks back. The monster is left to negotiate the world on his own, but much like a newborn baby, he is ignorant and unequipped to do so.
I love how, unlike the popular concept of the monster, he is, in fact, a vegetarian, and at the start, very vulnerable and peaceful. He learns to read by sitting outside a cottage where he can hear the cottagers teaching a foreigner to read.
I wrote a whole novel about him, A Monsterās Notes, which transports him into the 21st century.
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'
'That rare story to pass from literature into myth' The New York Times
Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley on Lake Geneva. The story of Victor Frankenstein who, obsessed with creating life itself, plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, but whose botched creature sets out to destroy his maker, would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Based on the thirdā¦
I am a Pulitzer-nominated writer who began as a poet, then shifted to prose during a period of aesthetic and personal crisis in my life. I am interested in how the novelist can gather and curate fascinating facts for the reader and incorporate them into the text. I see writing as a great adventure and investigation into issues of empathy, power, and powerlessness, and the individual in an increasingly technological world.
When I wrote my first novel, I began investigating modern-day technologyārobotics, bioengineering, AI, and information technologyāand have read and worked in this area for over 15 years. It is a pleasure to share some of the books that have informed my own journey.
Although technically not about Cyborgs, this brilliant novel traces scientific experimentation and investigation through the 20th centuryāemploying a tantalizing mixture of fact and fiction.
It opens with the strange fact of the Nazi commander Hermann Goringās fingernails which are āstained a furious redā from his prolonged ingestion of dihydrocodeine, which āWilliam Burroughs described as similar to heroinā¦ā, and goes on to track how the gas, Zycone B, used in the concentration camps to kill the Jewish prisoners was in fact developed as an insecticide to preserve crops and save the lives of millions of people who would have otherwise died of starvation.
The terrible irony is that the scientist who developed Zyclon B received the Nobel Prize for his life-saving work against famine. You canāt make this stuff up.
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.
Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.
At breakneck pace and with wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses theā¦
In an underground coal mine in Northern Germany, over forty scribes who are fluent in different languages have been spared the camps to answer letters to the deadāletters that people were forced to answer before being gassed, assuring relatives that conditions in the camps were good.Ā
I am a Pulitzer-nominated writer who began as a poet, then shifted to prose during a period of aesthetic and personal crisis in my life. I am interested in how the novelist can gather and curate fascinating facts for the reader and incorporate them into the text. I see writing as a great adventure and investigation into issues of empathy, power, and powerlessness, and the individual in an increasingly technological world.
When I wrote my first novel, I began investigating modern-day technologyārobotics, bioengineering, AI, and information technologyāand have read and worked in this area for over 15 years. It is a pleasure to share some of the books that have informed my own journey.
Deadpool is an amazing, compelling character with a stunning story. I am probably among the last peopleāa middle aged womanāone would think of as responding to this comic, but itās a brilliant and thought-provoking look at bioengineering and cruelty.
Deadpool, a powerful mercenary, gets struck down by a terrible disease. Weapon X offers to cure himābut at a price. Deadpoolās immune system becomes so over-active that he develops disfiguring lesions all over his body and must wear a body suit and mask to cover his now repulsive-looking face and body.
I found this comic very smart about the costs of technology and the complex feelings that arise from being on the receiving end of a biomedical experiment.
He's your number one, and these are his #1s! (Plus some other weird numbers.) Deadpool's dazzling debut steals the New Mutants' spotlight, leading to his very first limited series. Then brace yourself as the degenerate regenerates into nine new titles! The ever social sociopath gives top billing to his bro Cable, teams up with a demigod and even hangs with his own zombified head, before assembling a whole Corps of alternate Deadpools! COLLECTING: NEW MUTANTS (1983) 98, DEADPOOL: THE CIRCLE CHASE 1, DEADPOOL (1994) 1, DEADPOOL (1997) 1, CABLE & DEADPOOL 1, DEADPOOL (2008) 1, DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTHā¦
As an author of YA science books (as well as being an editor), my goal is to inspire teens to think deeply about our world, but especially about our relationships with animals. To be honest, I knew bubkis about bioengineering until I was writing my previous book, Last of the Giants, about the extinction crisis. My head exploded as I learned how close we are to āde-extinctingā lost species. The power that genetic engineering gives us to alter animals is unnerving, and itās critical that we understand and discuss it. Bioengineering will change our future, and teens today will be the ones deciding how.
Itās nice when scientists talk like regular people, with a sense of humor and simple explanations of how impossibly complex stuff works. Thatās paleontologist Jack Horner, who has been the dinosaur consultant on all the Jurassic Park films. Heās currently trying to re-create a real-life dinosaur, which he makes sound like tinkering with the engine of a 1960s Mustang. Who me? Just trying to get a chicken embryo to grow into a dinosaur, to see if I can. And if it works, by the way, thereās your proof about the theory of evolution.Ā Ā
A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur.
Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.
Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains that function together, Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening, power being acquired to recreate the prehistoric past. The key isā¦
I have long had an interest in government conspiracies and have spent hundreds of hours researching the many experiments our government has foisted upon an unsuspecting populous. When the Church Committee released info on Projects MK Ultra, Bluebird, Artichoke, and others, people were stunned to realize what had been going on. Movies such as The Matrix dealt with mind control and the attempt to create the perfect soldier, and I am convinced such research and experimentation continues today.
A government researcher disappears and the protagonist, Nick Randall, is battling reoccurring visions that are somehow intertwined. When assassins attempt to kill him, he is forced to go into hiding. I loved the use of Randallās son, John, who discovers that he is part of a clandestine psychological project being overseen by the military.
As a father, I loved the use of Randallās son, who is also searching for someoneāhis partnerāin this fast-paced novel that uses very different locales.
A recurring frightening vision and the disappearance of a top government researcher are somehow tied to each other. Only Nick Randall solve the mystery.
Archeologist Nick Randall is haunted by a recurring nightmare that may be tied to his controversial research. As he searches for answers, assassins nearly kill him, forcing him into hiding.
Nickās son, John, a talented bioengineer, faces his own mystery. Having developed a drug that erases traumatic memories, his research partner suddenly disappears.
While searching for him, John makes a terrifying discovery. He has been part of a secret, psychological, military project, and the shadowy figuresā¦
Iām secretly eight years old inside. I love fascinating animal and science stuff, especially cool, weird, and gross facts. Readers of my childrenās books see this passion in action. My best-selling and award-winning nonfiction animal books have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide since 2000. I focus particularly on reaching reluctant, struggling, and English-language-learning readers by packing my books with lots of action and high-interest topics to keep them turning pages. Iām recommending these top-five narrative nonfiction animal books for adults because these authors have influenced my research and thinkingāand because theyāre terrific stories!
After hearing Mary Roach describe research for this book during an NPR interview, I couldnāt wait to hear more of her bizarre, funny, sometimes unbelievable stories about animals ābreaking the law.ā
These are human laws, of course, that animals are heedless of and not bound by; however, human-animal conflicts are on the rise, and we must be aware of how to lessen negative interactions as we continue to move into territory where animals previously roamed freely. Humans are more often the problem in these encounters, but we can provide solutions too.
A must-read for all who love wildlife and spend time in nature!
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.
Roach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets inā¦
I fell in love with cyberpunk when I saw Ghost in the Shell for the first time. It quickly became my favorite genre, to read, watch and write. Meanwhile, Iām one of the most renowned cyberpunk indie authors. My series Behind Blue Eyes has quickly become a favorite among readers and bloggers and Iām planning to publish many more books in the series and the genre. Besides, Iām also one of the editors of the Neo Cyberpunk anthology series, a collection of short stories contributed by contemporary cyberpunk indie authors. I hope you enjoy my list and if you want more, check out the Cyberpunk Books group on Facebook!
Bubbles in Space couldnāt be more different than the two books above. It features a humoristic approach to the genre and doesnāt take itself too seriously. We follow Bubbles, a pink-haired detective on her adventures in Holo City. Like me, S.C. Jensen is one of the very few female authors in the cyberpunk genre. I recommend checking her books out if youāre looking for something not as grim and dramatic as most cyberpunk books.
Strippers, drugs, and headless corpses? All in a dayās work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCityās only cyborg detective.
Does she like her job? No. Is she good at it? Also no.
She canāt afford to be too good. The last time she got curious it cost her a job, a limb, and almost her life.
But when a seemingly simple case takes a gruesome turn, and Bubbles discovers a disturbing connection to the cold-case death of an old friend, she is driven to dig deeper.
And deeper.
Until what she uncovers can never be buried againā¦
Iām an Irish writer who is completely hooked on anything sci-fi related. I used to race home from school to do my homework as fast as possible so I could watch Star Trek: The Next Generation. The first character I ever wrote about began his life in my head as part of the Star Trek: TNG world before deciding he was too big and created his own. Itās still an area I am passionate about. Shows like Firefly, Dark Matter, Picard, etc are on my favourites list. I just love the endless possibilities with the genre. Endless exploration, hi or low tech, and incredible ships. Whatās not to love?
Iāve read all of this series, but this was my favourite. I have a thing for kick-ass heroes who have a vulnerable side. I love characters who can be strong and fight to protect whatās theirs but can also be damaged, flawed, not perfect. I think it makes them far more interesting. Coal hits the mark on this. Big and strong, but seriously damaged.Ā It helps keep me more invested in his story and development. And yes ā it does help that this book is hot!
*** THIS IS A RERELEASE OF A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BOOK ***
Jill has learned the hard way that men canāt be trusted and sex only causes pain. In the lawlessness of space, women are a sexual commodityāto be used and abused. Sheās doing a manās job, with only her fatherās brutal reputation and three androids to help keep her alive when she sees a massive, handsome cyborg chained to a freight table. The abusive crew plans to sell him to fight in gruesome death matches. Itās stupid, itās insane, but Jill canāt leave him to such a horrible fate.
Iāve read romance since I was teenager, and Iāve written all my professional life, first in journalism, then public relations, finally as an author. Being a sci-fi romance author is my dream job! There is nothing on this planet Iād rather do. I love the freedom and creativity of science fiction romance. There are new worlds to explore and fascinating characters to meet. The best books of any genre are those with ālegs.ā Years after reading them, you stillremember the story. My goal is to send my readers on an unforgettable emotional journey to an exciting new world filled with characters they canāt help but fall in love with.
What makes The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg unforgettable is the genre mash-up and the storyās poignancy.
It combines two disparate genres--western historical fiction and futuristic sci-fi romance. Mars is being colonized. Tasked with providing law and order are cyborg rangers riding their sentient robotic horses. While cyborgs play critical roles in the settling of Mars, they are considered less than human and are denied the same rights as regular citizens. When they meet their human heroine and fall in love they rediscover their humanity.
So well written and crafted, this story leaves a lasting impression on the reader.
