Infinite Loop: Stories About the Future by the People Creating It [SIGNED]

Larry Constantine (editor)

ISBN 10: 0879302984 / ISBN 13: 9780879302986

Published by Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco, CA, 1993

About this Item

A first edition, with ISBN 0-87930-298-4, LCCN 93-79448, and full printing line with "1" on its copyright page. Signed, with no personalizations or inscriptions, by TWO authors on their story's title page: Sonia Orin Lyris, and Don Webb. This book is in very good condition, marred only by wear on its spine ends, and a trace of lean. Its binding is sound, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn. Pages are unworn and otherwise unmarked. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in fine condition: bright, whole, unmarked, and unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.

Seller Inventory # 004746

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Infinite Loop: Stories About the Future by the People Creating It [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Miller Freeman Books, San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879302984
• ISBN 13: 9780879302986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books
  • SF & Fantasy Anthologies

About this title

Synopsis

Larry Constantine, well-known pioneer of computer software, writes science fiction. So do a lot of his colleagues, the programmers, analysts, engineers, and managers who are shaping the computer-driven future taking form in labs and programming shops around the world. This is their collection, not an anthology of "computer science" fiction, but diverse stories joined by a common thread; the desire to challenge the boundaries of human thought and to define and explore future possibilities.
You don't have to be a programmer to enjoy these stories. They're stories of human passion and revenge, of liberation and entrapment, stories of whimsy and stories of darker possibilities.
Here you'll get a fresh look at friendship through the eyes of a robot planetary explorer "programmed" to be flexible and resourceful, then sent on a long and lonely mission. You'll see corporate rivalry carried to an imaginative new plane. You'll listen in on the angst-ridden philosophizing of a biotech computer and play games with a zoo-full of animals that are not what they seem to be. You'll step into the shoes of some of tomorrow's harried parents reaching for a technological fix for impossible demands of jobs and children. You'll search for love and fulfillment when any fantasy can be made virtual reality and companionship comes in the shape of a computer - for a fee, of course.