The latest is booktuber Michael Everts, who has included my latest, NEEDLE in his top 3 books of the year so far! Thank you, Michael!Ĭlick here to see his review (and subscribe to his channel). So I am deeply grateful to reviewers who do take the time. For example, very few outlets of scale are willing to consider indie titles for review - a problem compounded when the title is third in an ongoing and little known series. I have no regrets about being an independent writer/publisher.
That helps me to work with the immense scale of space…and then I try to leave most of those numbers out of the actual story.
radius of Earth’s orbit and Saturn’s orbit - and in multiple units: kilometers, astronomical units, light minutes. So I force myself to gauge things comparatively - i.e. In large part, this is because I have no innate sense of the vast distances I’m dealing with. Nagata, on the other hand, deploys Artificial Life scientist Christopher Langton's theme of "life at the edge of chaos" to re-imagine the encounter with alien modes of being and to depict new spaces of adaptation and communication.I’ve made a start on book 4 of my Inverted Frontier series, but right now I find I’m spending a lot of “writing” time doing calculations, like “How far apart are these starships?” and “How long does it take to get a message from one end of the fleet to the other?” It’s frustrating, but I need to block out events on the stage before I get down to the actual writing. Turing machines) to a new form of biological computation in which sex provides the means of information exchange and processing.
Specifically, Stephenson envisions a shift from algorithmic computation (i.e. Assuming but extending beyond 1980s cyberpunk fiction, both authors project future worlds profoundly transformed by nanotechnology, in which the boundary between mechanical machines and biological organisms begins to break down. Most of the paper is then devoted to extended readings of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Linda Nagata's trilogy, The Bohr Maker, Deception Well, and Vast.
After a theoretical overview, it considers early examples of this influence in Bruce Sterling's first stories and novel Schismatrix. This paper examines a strand of contemporary sf that draws significantly on complexity theory, in particular on new ideas about computation and information processing that bear on questions about the origins of life and intelligence, and evolution in complex adaptive systems.
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