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January 2012Tote Mädchen
Roman
by Richard Calder, Hannes Riffel, Dietmar Dath
Großbritannien 2071. Ein Virus verwandelt pubertierende Mädchen in bluthungrige Cyborgs, »tote Mädchen«. Wer von ihnen gebissen wird, zeugt selbst vampirische Wesen. Die regierende Partei »Human Front« ruft zum Massaker an den Puppen auf und riegelt London hermetisch ab. Doch der junge Ivan Zwakh weigert sich, seine Geliebte, die Sexpuppe Primavera, zu verlassen, auch wenn ihre Liebesbeweise ihn fast das Leben kosten. Den beiden gelingt die Flucht nach Bangkok, aber ihre Verfolger sind ihnen dicht auf den Fersen … Richard Calder entwirft eine düstere Zukunftswelt, in der Gelüste nach Sex, Schmerz und Macht die Existenz der Menschheit aufs Spiel setzen. Ein temporeich erzählter, fesselnder Roman über den Versuch einer unmöglichen Liebe im Cyborgzeitalter.
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August 2010Die Figur des Dritten
Ein kulturwissenschaftliches Paradigma
by Eva Eßlinger, Tobias Schlechtriemen, Doris Schweitzer, Alexander Zons
Auf der Bühne der Epistemologie kommt es im 20. Jahrhundert zu einer signifikanten Umbesetzung. Ins Rampenlicht der Theoriebildung tritt eine Gestalt, die bis dahin weitgehend zu einer Existenz off stage verurteilt war: die Figur des Dritten. Seither tummelt sich eine Vielzahl von zuvor eher randständigen Akteuren in den kulturwissenschaftlichen Theorien: Boten, Cyborgs, Parasiten, Rivalen, Trickster. Prominent wird der/die/das Dritte jedoch nicht allein in solchen Verkörperungen, sondern auch als theoretische Figuration: Kategorien wie third space, Hybridität oder drittes Geschlecht deuten auf eine neuartige Sensibilität für die Problematik von Grenzziehung und Unterscheidung. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band bietet Lesern aus dem breiten Spektrum der Kulturwissenschaften einen Problemaufriss und Überblick über die Vielfalt von Figuren und Figurationen des Dritten.
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FictionAugust 2022Altopía
1. La traición (Betrayal)
by Alejandro Barrientos, Joaquín Cuevas
El Alto celebrates its tenth anniversary as the capital of the New Kollasuyo. Metropolis of the Andes, continental scrap market, second-hand industrial engine, supplier of robotic waste, host to Chinese colonies, home of technosophic cyberreligions, global center of cholet architecture, and the highest popular fair on the planet, the city of the future reflects our dreams. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: the future is now!
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May 2020Antropología del astronauta cotidiano
by José Alejandro Polanco Contreras
Desde la perspectiva de la antropología médica, este libro describe las condiciones de vida de las personas que llevan dispositivos médicos al cuerpo que pueden hacerlos parecer en cierto modo cyborgs, debido a esa simbiosis entre el ser humano y la tecnología. El lector encontrará historias de vida de personas de diversas condiciones sociales y económicas que tienen en común su condición de "astronauta de la vida diaria", término adoptado por el autor para nombrar a aquellas personas que, por circunstancias de su vida, fueron "lanzadas" en la complejidad de vivir con una ostomía. El libro describe la perspectiva médica del problema, así como las tecnologías y dispositivos que se han desarrollado para el cuidado de las ostomías y que han ayudado a esas personas a llevar una vida plenamente funcional.
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Reality 36 & Omega Point
Together in One Volume for the First Time, the Richards and Klein SF Mystery Series
by Guy Haley
Reality 36: Richards and Klein are a 22nd century Holmes and Watson... except Richards is a highly advance AI and Klein is a German ex-military cyborg. Omega Point: K52 is an AI with a diabolical plan - to create an artificial reality of the entire universe, and learn to control the real universe in turn. And only Richards and Klein can stop it.
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2017Good virus
by E. Artemenko, O. Smalko
The book tells the story of children from different parts of the world who thoughtlessly littered and who were suddenly abducted by cyborgs (cleaning agents) and sent to the planet Muziginkus for re-education. After the introduction of a good virus into the body, children had to overcome certain obstacles in their path and enter into open confrontation with the agents of dirt to be able to return to Earth and save it from environmental catastrophe. This work will be interesting and useful, especially for middle school children and all those who seek to improve their ecological culture and care for the natural environment.
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September 2022The Man Who Came Out of the 3-D Printer (Der Mann, der aus dem 3D-Drucker kam)
by Max Claro
On his seventieth birthday, Walter Fabricius, a once-celebrated actor now widowed and forgotten, is determined to end his life surrounded by his children. While preparing to shuffle off this mortal coil, he learns of an almost unbelievable opportunity: in Zurich he can have himself scanned and then, by means of a special 3D bioprinter, reproduced—thirty-five years younger to boot—in Bangkok. With his present-day knowledge and life experience, yet with countless flaws rectified, equipped with a revivified sex drive, and more resistant to illness and resilient than in his old body, Walter doesn’t hesitate long. Yet during the printing process, a fateful error occurs, upending everything and leading his youthful alter ego on a breathless trip through a future Thailand—and to Walter himself.
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FictionThe Membranes
by Chi Ta-Wei
It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes―heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies―into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader’s own role.
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September 2020Contact
by CGM Mackenzie
Born into a world without flavour or colour, in which difference is not tolerated and power is in the hands of the System and its single Language, Zilimi is called to take a different path – one that leads to banishment and a fight for the future of all humanity. But Zilimi is not alone: mysterious Voices help at every twist and turn of that chosen path. Is Zilimi strong and wise enough to choose a future for all of us? And what links the strange creatures of the Council of the Ascended, meeting at the heart of the Galaxy, to an eleven-year-old on Earth? Once upon a (future) time...
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Nature's Confession
by JL Morin
The epic tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet...the universe...and their love. A cli-fi quest to outsmart polluters, full of romance, honour and adventure. “The novel is epic” –The Guardian “It makes no apologies for its mission: to save our Planet Earth from self-destructing. A thought-provoking novel that brings the genre of ‘cli-fi’ to young adult readers.” —Florence Griswold Museum Reading Club, in an event featuringDr. Mark J. Schenker, Senior Associate Dean andDean of Academic Affairs at Yale University Readers' Favorite Award Winner Book Excellence Finalist A Top 10 Best Science Fiction book Best Climate and Environmental Fiction book LitPick Award winner In "12 Works of Climate Fiction Everyone Should Read" 'Top Fiction Read' of the Year New York Book Festival Honorable Mention An excerpt received an Eco-Fiction Story Contest Honorable Mention "Honestly, it's not my fault. Humans were polluting the planet to desolation. What else could I do? I had to save her. " When a smart-mouthed, mixed-race teen wonders why the work that needs to be done pays nothing compared to the busywork glorified on holovision news, the search for answers takes him on the wildest journey of anyone's lifetime. With the girl of his dreams, he inadvertently invents living computers. Just as the human race allows corporations to pollute Earth into total desolation, institute martial law and enslave humanity, the two teens set out to save civilization. Can they thwart polluters of Earth and other fertile planets? The heroes come into their own in different kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance. Along the way, they enlist the help of female droid Any Gynoid, who uncovers cutting-edge scientific mysteries. Their quest takes them through the Big Bang and back. Will Starliament tear them from the project and unleash 'intelligent' life's habitual pollution, or will youth lead the way to a new way of coexisting with Nature? Nature's Confession couldn't be more timely, just as the IMF reveals that governments give $5.3 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies every year, while we continue to propagate the idea that solar and wind power are unprofitable. The ideal classroom tool, with illustrations and topics for discussion at the back of the book. JL Morin entertains questions about busywork; economic incentives to pollute; sustainable energy; exploitation; cyborgs; the sanctity of Nature; and many kinds of relationships in this diverse, multi-cultural romance.
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April 2021Allunia
by Tiphs
Trapped in a meaningless life, Leah is still looking to find herself. One thing is certain: she would never have thought of dying by lightning. But now, she is dead for sure. And she is in Allunia.Hunted, embarked by a rebellious group, Leah finds herself in this strange place where ancestral magic and new technology are intimately linked and where souls tend to have mysterious powers that, when misused, lead to terrible consequences.
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FictionSnakes In Suits
by Hinemura Ellison and Ted D Hughes
Freya returns to Wellington to restore her inheritance, 'Portobello', an Art Deco building in Petone, to her former glory. Only to find dubious dealings with various Snakes in Suits, Lawyers, Bankers, the Council and an unscrupulous property developer who will stop at nothing, even murder, to get what he wants - 'Portobello'. Freya fights back with the help of her childhood friend Zac - who just happens to be drop dead gorgeous, and Simon her cute Bank manager who is also competing for her attention. Reuniting with her besties Sven and Clara, together they navigate their chaotic lives, a massive earthquake and help each other to find love and to solve the murders that plague them. Book Two in the Trinity Trilogy following on from Sharks With Lipstick
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Impact of science & technology on societyFake people
Stories of Social Bots and Digital Liars
by Viola Bachini, Maurizio Tesconi
Today, on the social media, there is a very high probability of coming across a false profile. As well as individuals who do not state their own identity, social bots can be encountered: these are automated programs which hide algorithms that are so sophisticated that they cannot be distinguished from people in flesh and blood. The social bots, used for a huge variety of purposes, are not all the same: there are the ‘good’ ones, which for example automatically send a tweet in the case of an earthquake, but there are also less virtuous ones… This book tells the story of this variegated universe: from the racist bots of Microsoft to the trolls in the US presidential campaign up to the false followers of Italian politicians, via the swindle of the algorithm which shot up the price of the shares of a phantom company to the stars. It is a fascinating account accompanied by interviews with the most important professionals in the sector, to reveal the challenges faced by those who create the bots and those who hunt them down.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureThe Immortals
Stories from Our Future
by Alberto Giuliani
One day, a soothsayer on the shore of Lake Baikal, Siberia, told Alberto Giuliani that he would die a violent death sometime between 2020 and 2021. He never fully believed the prophecy, until it was confirmed by a shaman in Vrindavan, India. The shaman told him to always wear a yellow sapphire on his right index finger. The stone would help him choose between life and death, when the fateful day would come. The two prophecies have left Alberto with a hunger to know what the future of humanity will look like – because he may not be here to witness it firsthand. And so, he started travelling, in search for an answer.
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Ossigeno
by Sacha Naspini
Paul Auster meets Stephen King in this poetic yet disturbing investigation into the darkest corners of human nature. After the coral, ambitious Le case del malcontento, Sasha Naspini comes back with a tightly plotted narrative that keeps you at the edge of your seat from page one to the very end, while drawing with sharp sensibility broken characters who fight against all odds to put their pieces back together in unexpected new shapes. Laura disappears on the 12th of August 1999, at eight years old. She is found 14 years later in a bunker. She’s 22 now. Luca is having dinner with his father, just another evening, always the same for the last thirty years. Someone knocks at the door: it’s the police. What happens if one day you find out the person who raised you is a monster? Ossigeno is the story of those who stay after everything and everyone else have gone. The arrest of the monster is the beginning of a new life, one that seemed impossible to imagine – there are no cages anymore, but the characters are nevertheless stuck in their own minds, made of memories and scars they can’t forget. Luca’s father was his bridge to reality, he was his moral compass, someone to look up to. After the death of his mother, he had become his whole family. And throughout this whole time, he was monster. Where does this leave Luca? Is he a monster too, for sharing is father’s blood? Meanwhile, Laura is trying hard to live again. Her mother doesn’t know how to talk to her. Laura smiles, she acts normal. She likes to wander around the city – she likes to get lost in the crowd. But sometimes she feels the need to be surrounded by walls. She locks herself in a random bathroom. She could stay there for hours, until someone knocks. No one knows what she’s doing in there. Ossigeno is a matrioska. Characters close themselves in dark boxes – and a boy in Wyoming hides in a locket, not knowing he has always been captive inside someone else’s nightmare. Ossigeno is not a psychological thriller – it is not a crime novel. It is a story of dark roots and curious, eerie minds. Of secrets buried so deep that become seeds for madness. Of masks worn so tightly they become your own skin. But what’s underneath, no matter how hard you try, is still there. Hidden. Observing. Waiting to see what happens. Sasha Naspini’s previous novel, Le Case del malcontento, was sold in China, Korea, Greece and Turkey and is being considered by many publishers worldwide. Its passionate, extremely sophisticated story-telling and unforgettable characterization makes it a psychological masterpiece, an analysis on the complexity of human nature – I would say it’s the Italian Spoon River Anthology, and the title has also been compared to Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. With a vernacular yet classical, literary language, and multiple points of view, Le Case is an epic rural tale with a universal echo. The novel plays with genres, mixing noir, psychological thriller, historical memoir and dark fairy-tale.
