Architects Of Emortality

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466827363

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Architects of Emortality by Brian Stableford Pdf

Brian Stableford launched an ambitious future history series with Inherit the Earth, to widespread praise. "Stableford has created in this novel a totally believable world, and wrapped it around a series of mysterious events, surprise revelations, double crosses, confused motivations, rumors, lies, plots, and counterplots. . . . Tightly controlled and suspenseful throughout," said Science Fiction Chronicle. Library Journal said, "The ethical questions posed by the prospect of conquering the aging process underscore this fast-paced SF adventure, adding depth to a story that will appeal to fans of high-tech SF and conspiracy theories." This future world is a complex society obsessed with the technology of life extension and on the brink of creating true immortals. Now, in Architects of Emortality, Stableford gives us a story set hundreds of years in the future, filled with people who can hope for 300-year lifespans and a fortunate few whose lives will be in the thousands of years. This society is on the edge of radical change, where people have the time to develop eccentric lifestyles and personal obsessions, a world sometimes reminiscent of the distant future of Michael Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time series. And there has been a series of murders that threaten the future stability of the world, murders executed by bioengineered flowers. Police officers Watson and Holmes investigate, but the central figure quickly becomes the amateur detective Oscar Wilde, a student of history who has taken on the persona of his namesake. And the question is not so much who the murderer is, but how and why. Filled with memorable characters and powerful and striking images of the richly altered world of the future, Architects of Emortality is a satisfying and complete story that also adds depth and detail to the evolving series. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Stephen A. Valentine
Publisher : Images Publishing Dist Ac
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215504809

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Timeship by Stephen A. Valentine Pdf

We have long been fascinated by immortality. If, as is currently thought, aging and death are actually a result of genetic programming, then new frontiers being opened by biotechnology may make it possible to identify the genes that cause aging and turn

Author : Brian Stableford
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312871659

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Inherit the Earth by Brian Stableford Pdf

In the twenty-second century, biomedical nanotechnology has given everyone in the world long life and robust health. It is the New Utopia, and all live in the expectation that true immortality will soon be realized. Damon Hart, son of the scientist responsible for much of the wonders of the new world, would rather forget his famous father and get on with his own life. But a shadowy terrorist group forces Damon to confront his heritage, launching a cat-and-mouse game that pits Damon against the terrorists, Interpol, and the powerful corporations that control the biotechnology of the future...a game Damon is ill-equipped to survive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Brian Azzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1401215521

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Architecture and Mortality by Brian Azzarello Pdf

The Architects--shapers of the universe--don't have room for misfits in their new world order. Can professional debunker Docotr 13 unmask their secret? And if he does, will even he believe it? Find out as Doctor 13 heads out on a quest to meet his maker accompanied by a talking Nazi gorilla, a flying pirate, an oh-so-'80s vampire, a cosmic heroine with a constant runny nose, a caveman frozen in ice, the tank-driving ghost of a Confederate general, a mysterious boy who can answer any question for the price of one thin dime, and the Doctor's own witchcrafty daughter.

Author : Nora Lefa,Pavlos Lefas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000691030

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Buildings Used by Nora Lefa,Pavlos Lefas Pdf

Buildings Used takes the reader on an exploration into the impact of use on buildings and users. While most histories and theories of architecture focus on a building’s conception, design, and realization, this book argues that its identity is formed after its completion through use; and that the cultural and psychological effects of its use on those inhabiting it are profound. Across eight investigative chapters, authors Nora Lefa and Pavlos Lefas propose that use should not be understood merely as function. Instead, this book argues that we also use buildings by creating, destroying or appropriating them, and discusses a series of philosophical, cultural and design issues related to use. Buildings Used would appeal to students and scholars in architectural theory, history and cultural studies.

Author : Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262528641

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Attunement by Alberto Perez-Gomez Pdf

How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities. Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding. Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Pérez-Gómez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions. Pérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of Stimmung—attunement—and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture—the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how Stimmung might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement.

Author : Donald Tarantino
Publisher : bd-studios.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781950231003

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Architecture and Mortality by Donald Tarantino Pdf

Donald Tarantino (b.1962) was a queer artist who studied at Philadelphia College of Art and later settled in New York City, where he became part of the East Village scene of the 1980s. Working mostly as a printmaker, his art explores the intersection between cities and suburbia, shifting between office buildings and domestic spaces. His images examine the structures we inhabit, interweaving the anxieties they cause, and the joys they elicit. His late prints were inspired by the isolated rooms and hallways of the St. Vincent’s AIDS ward, driving home a sense of mortality that loomed all too close. He died of AIDS-related illness in 1988. Architecture and Mortality collects his surviving prints, drawings, and other work and is the only published overview of the artist.

Author : Hashim Sarkis,Roi Salgueiro Barrio,Gabriel Kozlowski
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262043960

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The World as an Architectural Project by Hashim Sarkis,Roi Salgueiro Barrio,Gabriel Kozlowski Pdf

Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind. Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 envisions a system that connects the entire planet in a linear urban network. In 1927, Buckminster Fuller's “World Town Plan—4D Tower” proposes to solve global housing problems with mobile structures delivered and installed by a Zeppelin. And Joyce Hsiang and Bimal Mendis visualize the conditions of a worldwide “City of Seven Billion” in a 2015–2019 project. Rather than indulging the cliché of the megalomaniac architect, this volume presents a discipline reflecting on its own responsibilities.

Author : Brian Azzarello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1401215521

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Architecture and Mortality by Brian Azzarello Pdf

The Architects--shapers of the universe--don't have room for misfits in their new world order. Can professional debunker Docotr 13 unmask their secret? And if he does, will even he believe it? Find out as Doctor 13 heads out on a quest to meet his maker accompanied by a talking Nazi gorilla, a flying pirate, an oh-so-'80s vampire, a cosmic heroine with a constant runny nose, a caveman frozen in ice, the tank-driving ghost of a Confederate general, a mysterious boy who can answer any question for the price of one thin dime, and the Doctor's own witchcrafty daughter.

Author : Karen Osborne
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250215468

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Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne Pdf

Millions died after the first contact. An alien weapon holds the key to redemption—or annihilation. Experience Karen Osborne's unforgettable science fiction debut, Architects of Memory. 2021 Locus Award for Best First Novel--Finalist SyFY Wire SFF Reads to pick up in September Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : William H. Coaldrake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134845293

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Architecture and Authority in Japan by William H. Coaldrake Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Langford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X004699084

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Up Through an Empty House of Stars by David Langford Pdf

At last, _Up Through an Empty House of Stars_ brings together the best of the never before collected SF reviews and articles that helped build David Langford's towering reputation since 1980. Complementing the review columns collected in _The Complete Critical Assembly_ and the knockabout essays and squibs in _The Silence of the Langford_, this volume's 100 glittering selections mix serious critical insight with the inimitable Langford wit. In 2002 David Langford won his sixteenth Hugo award as Best Fan Writer, for critical and humorous commentary on SF. In the same year his occasionally scandalous SF newsletter _Ansible_ won its fifth Hugo. Langford also received the 2001 Hugo for best short story, and the 2002 Skylark Award. Here he shines a unique light on classics like Ernest Bramah, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Heinlein and Jack Vance, and analyses major SF -- and major clunkers, and minor eccentrics -- of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, continuing to the latest by such current stars as Gene Wolfe and China Mi, ville. Plus witty asides on crime fiction and its SF links, gleeful examination of writing so bad it's almost good, and (even at his most serious) turns of phrase to make you laugh aloud.

Author : Oliver Krüger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450598

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Virtual Immortality - God, Evolution, and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism by Oliver Krüger Pdf

In recent years, ideas of post- and transhumanism have been popularized by novels, TV series, and Hollywood movies. According to this radical perspective, humankind and all biological life have become obsolete. Traditional forms of life are inefficient at processing information and inept at crossing the high frontier: outer space. While humankind can expect to be replaced by their own artificial progeny, posthumanists assume that they will become an immortal part of a transcendent superintelligence. Krüger's award-winning study examines the historical and philosophical context of these futuristic promises by Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Frank Tipler, and other posthumanist thinkers.

Author : Giorgio Vasari,George Bull
Publisher : Allan Lane
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : 0713910658

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Artists of the Renaissance by Giorgio Vasari,George Bull Pdf

Author : Darren Harris-Fain
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025820817

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British Fantasy and Science-fiction Writers Since 1960 by Darren Harris-Fain Pdf

Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction discuss the changing attitudes towards this genre, including serious consideration by critics. Covers the publication of science fiction in comic books, limited productions of publications by fan presses, the difference between British and American science fiction, the birth of the New Wave, and the revival of horror fiction as a distinct genre.