Chasing Shadows, Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (Signed)

David Brin

ISBN 10: 076538258X / ISBN 13: 9780765382580

Published by Tor, New York, 2017

About this Item

From the publisher: David Brin, Hugo award-winning author ofThe Uplift War, presentsChasing Shadows, a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries. As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brothers?watching, judging, and reporting on one another? Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction bookThe Transparent Society, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technologic transparency in all its permutations. This copy is fine in black cloth with metallic green titles on the spine. Essentially as new, with no marks or damage at all. Unclipped DJ is also in pristine condition. "Gift Quality". VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chasing Shadows, Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (Signed)
• Publisher: Tor, New York
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076538258X
• ISBN 13: 9780765382580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science, Math and Technology

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Synopsis

As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brothers watching, judging, and reporting on one another? Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technologic transparency in all its permutations.

About the Author

David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant, and well-known author. His novels have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards among others. Brin lives near San Diego, California. www.davidbrin.com Stephen W. Potts is a professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego specialising in twentieth-century fiction and popular culture.