In a new world of digital beings, where humans have chosen to be forever digitized, have selected renewable robotic bodies, or remain flesh on Earth, a devastating event puts the Fleshers in danger from beings that can reshape subatomic particles and transcend time.
Transformed into an electronic code, a Copy must discover an alternate way out, back into its real body, because the original avenue of escape has been cut off by the human version from which its was originally copied. Original.
An adventure novel on a group of scientists whose work threatens to alter the universe. The hero is a science reporter with an implanted camera and the story features a world with five sexes. By an Australian writer, author of Permutation City.
A dazzling collection of short fiction, filled with invention and hard-science speculation, by the popular author of QUARANTINE, PERMUTATION CITY, and DISTRESS. Growing in reputation and sales with every book, Greg Egan, has filled this volume with the best of his short fiction work, that his growing audience is sure to appreciate.
Get Ready To Expand Your Mind... Acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell is back with the sixth annual collection of the year's most impressive, thought-provoking, and just plain great science fiction. Year's Best SF 6 includes contributions from the greatest stars of the field as well as remarkable newcomers -- galaxies and into unexplored territory deep within your own soul. Here are stories from: Brian W. Aldiss Stephen Baxter David Brin Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Robert Silverberg and many more...
Two decades after an Indonesian uprising had decimated a family of scientists, the two surviving children return as adults to investigate bizarre reports of genetic mutations rising out of the war-shattered region. Reprint.
Twenty-thousand years in the future, a dangerous experiment in quantum physics creates an expanding vacuum in space that threatens to wipe out all humanity. By the author of Teransia. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Sustainable Site Design introduces the core concepts of sustainability as applied to landscape architecture. Focusing on site-scale design, this book provides a regional framework for integrating sustainable practices throughout the design process. From landscape analysis to program and design development, each design phase is illustrated with detailed case studies covering a broad range of innovative built landscape architectural projects.