Transhuman Space

Author : John F. Zeigler
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1556348304

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Transhuman Space: Fifth Wave by John F. Zeigler Pdf

The Third Wave was information. The Fourth Wave was biotech. The Fifth Wave is a combination of nanotechnology, memetics, and artificial intelligence, and it's changing mankind more than the first four waves put together. Transhuman Space: Fifth Wave is an overview of our home planet at the end of the 21st century. Most humans (and other sapient life) still live on Earth, doing business, raising families, and fighting wars just as they have always done. Humanity and its partners may be scattering into deep space, but Earth is still the center of the human universe . . . crowded, busy, fast-moving, and still picking up speed. Fifth Wave includes new racial packages, plus rules for cutting-edge technology: virtuality nodes, software for network intrusion and defense, and various land, sea and air vehicles of interest to adventurers. Welcome home. It's different here.

Author : Constantine Thomas,Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1556346786

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Under Pressure by Constantine Thomas,Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated Pdf

Author : David Pulver
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 1556345860

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Transhuman Space by David Pulver Pdf

Author : David Pulver
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1556348290

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Transhuman Space: Powered by Gurps by David Pulver Pdf

It's the year 2100. Humans have colonized the solar system. China and America struggle for control of Mars. The Royal Navy patrols the asteroid belt. Nanotechnology has transformed life on Earth forever, and gene-enhanced humans share the world with artificial intelligences and robotic cybershells. Our solar system has become a setting as exciting and alien as any interstellar empire. Pirate spaceships hijacking black holes . . . sentient computers and artificial "bioroids" demanding human rights . . . nanotechnology and mind control . . . Transhuman Space is cutting-edge science-fiction adventure that begins where cyberpunk ends. This Powered by GURPS line was created by David L. Pulver and illustrated by Christopher Shy. The core book, Transhuman Space, opens with nearly one hundred pages of world and background material. This edition includes a customized GURPS Lite - no other books are required to use it, although the GURPS Basic Set for Third Edition and GURPS Compendium I are recommended for GMs.

Author : Steve Jackson Games,Patrick Sweeney (Freelance author on gaming)
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Fantasy games
ISBN : 1556345763

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Transhuman Space Orbital Decay by Steve Jackson Games,Patrick Sweeney (Freelance author on gaming) Pdf

Author : EDS Staff,Steve Jackson Games
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1556344821

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Transhuman Space in the Well by EDS Staff,Steve Jackson Games Pdf

Author : Oliver Krüger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Melvin G. Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498583817

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Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities by Melvin G. Hill Pdf

This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing to broader thought about Black transcendence of subjectivity in a posthuman framework, the chapters explore interpretations of the “old” and visions of the “new” human.

Author : Ed Regis
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0201567512

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Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis Pdf

Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic eggshell, and faxing human minds to the far side of the galaxy. With Ed Regis as your guide, walk the fine line between science fact and fiction on this freewheeling and riotously funny tour through some of the most serious science there is.

Author : J.S. Morin
Publisher : Magical Scrivener Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942642237

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Extinction Reversed by J.S. Morin Pdf

These days, even the humans are built by robots. Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap. Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned. Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species’ history. But Eve’s creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her. There is only one robot qualified to protect her. For the first time in a thousand years, Charlie7 has a human race to protect. A.I. didn’t destroy humanity. It didn’t save us, either. The robots we built in our final days preserved human minds. They survived the end of life on Earth and embarked on the greatest single project in all recorded history. They rebuilt. The result of 1,000 years of genetic engineering, terraforming, and painstaking toxic cleanup has resulted in the ultimate achievement of the Post-Invasion Age: a healthy human. Her name is Eve14. Don’t ask about the 13 Eves before her. Or do, because that’s the reason why she’s in danger, and why one brave robot puts his millennium-long life on the line to save her. Welcome back to the Golden Age of science fiction, when scientists had planet-sized dreams and robots were robots. Grab your copy while there’s still an Earth left to read it on.

Author : Sarah Newton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147834802X

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Mindjammer by Sarah Newton Pdf

IT IS THE SECOND AGE OF SPACE... In the seventeenth millennium, the New Commonality of Humankind is expanding, using newly-discovered faster-than-light travel to rediscover lost worlds colonised in the distant past. It's a time of turmoil, of clashing cultures, as civilisations shudder and collapse before the might of a benevolent empire ten millennia old. In the Solenine Cluster, things are going from bad to worse, as hyper-advanced technologies destabilise a world in chaos. Thaddeus Clay and his SCI Force special ops team are on the trail of the Transmigration Heresy. What they find is something beyond even their imagining - something which could tear the whole Commonality apart... "Thrilling adventure and mystery wrapped up with an inventive, mind-bending look at mankind's future." - Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Desert of Souls "Science fiction like this never dies." - Chris Helton, Dorkland "Complex, gripping... the most original sci-fi you're likely to get..." - G*M*S Magazine "a very exciting and intelligently-written novel that should be on the reading list of every SF fan!" - Stargazer's World "William Gibson-like in the intensity of the ideas it introduces... a heady mixture of action, crunchy science fiction elements and that perennial cyberpunk or transhuman question: what does human mean?" - Shores of Night

Author : Roger D. Launius,Howard E. McCurdy
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780801898440

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Robots In Space by Roger D. Launius,Howard E. McCurdy Pdf

A look into the history of space exploration and its possible future, and just where exactly robotics fit into it all. Given the near incomprehensible enormity of the universe, it appears almost inevitable that humankind will one day find a planet that appears to be much like the Earth. This discovery will no doubt reignite the lure of interplanetary travel. Will we be up to the task? And, given our limited resources, biological constraints, and the general hostility of space, what shape should we expect such expeditions to take? In Robots in Space, Roger Launius and Howard McCurdy tackle these questions with rigorous scholarship and disciplined imagination, jumping comfortably among the worlds of rocketry, engineering, public policy, and science fantasy to expound upon the possibilities and improbabilities involved in trekking across the Milky Way and beyond. They survey the literature—fictional as well as academic studies—and outline the progress of space programs in the United States and other nations. They also assess the current state of affairs to offer a conclusion startling only to those who haven’t spent time with Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke: to traverse the cosmos, humans must embrace and entwine themselves with advanced robotic technologies . . . 2008 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine Praise for Robots in Space “This short volume manages to capture the history of U.S. space flight, to explain the underpinnings of U.S. space policy and to plot out the possibilities for our future in space in a style that most anyone can enjoy.” —Andrew McMichael, Park City Daily News

Author : David Morgan-Mar,David L. Pulver
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1556348142

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Gurps Bio-Tech by David Morgan-Mar,David L. Pulver Pdf

The Future is Alive "Who needs chrome, pal? Meat is where it's at now. Mother Nature always did it best -- she just needed a little help. Get down to the black clinic, old-timer, and you can be 15 again. That is, if you still want to be human at all." It's the technology of the posthuman age: biotech! Upgrade your old body with steroids and smart drugs, transplants, and viral nano . . . or just get a new one. Maybe you don't think being human is so great? Then improve on nature with eugenics and gene-fixing. Or just go parahuman: if you love cats, become one! The technology's changing fast, but you'll have lots of time to get used to it -- death is only a temporary inconvenience with cryonics and immortality drugs. And who needs silicon and steel? Vatbrain biocomputers are where it's really at! But it's not just about the future. GURPS Bio-Tech includes a full range of 19th, 20th, and 21st-century medical equipment, from early vaccines to surgical robots, along with game stats for the world's most deadly diseases. GURPS Bio-Tech also includes a complete set of character templates for biotech professions, rules for biotech magic, and two original campaign settings: an alternate Earth ruled by a clone of Alexander the Great, and a living starship on its way to colonize an alien world! Say goodbye to your old body. Have you upgraded your genetics this year? This is the second edition of GURPS Bio-Tech. It has been revised to the GURPS Fourth Edition rules and expanded to cover medicine, drugs, magic, and new technologies. Some entries were introduced in GURPS Space, GURPS Robots, and the Transhuman Space series.

Author : Zoltan Istvan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 0988616114

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The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan Pdf

Philosopher, entrepreneur, and former National Geographic and New York Times correspondent Zoltan Istvan presents his visionary novel, The Transhumanist Wager, as a seminal statement of our times. Scorned by over 500 publishers and literary agents around the world, his philosophical thriller has been called "revolutionary" and "socially dangerous" by readers, scholars, and religious authorities. The novel debuts a challenging original philosophy, which rebuffs modern civilization by inviting the end of the human species-and declaring the onset of something greater. Set in the present day, the novel tells the story of transhumanist Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. Fighting against him are fanatical religious groups, economically depressed governments, and mystic Zoe Bach: a dazzling trauma surgeon and the love of his life, whose belief in spirituality and the afterlife is absolute. Exiled from America and reeling from personal tragedy, Knights forges a new nation of willing scientists on the world's largest seasteading project, Transhumania. When the world declares war against the floating city, demanding an end to its renegade and godless transhuman experiments and ambitions, Knights strikes back, leaving the planet forever changed.

Author : Sean Punch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : UOM:39015050162729

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GURPS Lite by Sean Punch Pdf