Reviews
"With its mix of fact and fiction this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject. . . . The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators creations." --www.BookViewCafe.com, "Oh, these stories! . . . Don't stop until all have been read." Booklist , starred review on Feeling Very Strange, "Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists and science fiction writers." - Cosmos (December 2012), "Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists and science fiction writers." -- Cosmos (December 2012), Full of compelling and controversial stories." — Publishers Weekly There are a few things I always look for in a high-quality anthology: First, it should have a wide range of selections that yet epitomize the theme of the anthology. Second, it should be a diverse collection of author and genre. Third, it should have a well-written introduction that acts as a thesis of sorts and adds to the literature on the subject. Digital Rapture has all these things...." — Nerds in Babeland Even those in the know will be enthralled by the visions of post-biological futures in this collection of short stories and essays. Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists, and science-fiction writers." — Cosmos ...this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject. The facts explain the thinking, the fiction tries to figure out what all that thinking could mean. The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators' creations." — Book View Cafe It's the kind of anthology that opens your mind so far that your brain feels like it's going to fall out." — Blogcritics, "With its mix of fact and fiction this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject. . . . The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators creations." www.BookViewCafe.com, "Full of compelling and controversial stories." -- Publishers Weekly "There are a few things I always look for in a high-quality anthology: First, it should have a wide range of selections that yet epitomize the theme of the anthology. Second, it should be a diverse collection of author and genre. Third, it should have a well-written introduction that acts as a thesis of sorts and adds to the literature on the subject. Digital Rapture has all these things...." -- Nerds in Babeland "Even those in the know will be enthralled by the visions of post-biological futures in this collection of short stories and essays. Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists, and science-fiction writers." -- Cosmos "...this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject. The facts explain the thinking, the fiction tries to figure out what all that thinking could mean. The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators' creations." -- Book View Cafe "It's the kind of anthology that opens your mind so far that your brain feels like it's going to fall out." -- Blogcritics, "Oh, these stories! . . . Don't stop until all have been read." - Booklist , starred review on Feeling Very Strange, "Sixteen inspiring, mind-altering stories . . . and every story in the bunch is a knockout." -- BoingBoing on Rewired, "Everyone from Asimov to Vinge, from Doctorow to Pohl and more appear here, and there are essays, short stories, novellas . . . everything a Sci fi reader could ask for. . . . I highly recommend Digital Rapture ." --www.NerdsInBabeLand.com, "These stories are good enough to make the New Yorker's Eustace Tilley pop his cartoon monocle." -io9 on The Secret History of Science Fiction, "With its mix of fact and fiction this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject. . . . The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators creations." -www.BookViewCafe.com, "Everyone from Asimov to Vinge, from Doctorow to Pohl and more appear here, and there are essays, short stories, novellas . . . everything a Sci fi reader could ask for. . . . I highly recommend Digital Rapture ." -www.NerdsInBabeLand.com, "Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists and science fiction writers." Cosmos (December 2012), Full of compelling and controversial stories." — Publishers Weekly There are a few things I always look for in a high-quality anthology: First, it should have a wide range of selections that yet epitomize the theme of the anthology. Second, it should be a diverse collection of author and genre. Third, it should have a well-written introduction that acts as a thesis of sorts and adds to the literature on the subject. Digital Rapture has all these things...." — Nerds in Babeland Even those in the know will be enthralled by the visions of post-biological futures in this collection of short stories and essays. Sci-fi stalwarts James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have assembled a definitive primer on the singularity, with contributions from top-tier scientists, futurists, and science-fiction writers." — Cosmos ...this book rocks for those who are looking for a primer on the subject. The facts explain the thinking, the fiction tries to figure out what all that thinking could mean. The strength of the book lies in this mashing together of the theorists' theories and content creators' creations." — Book View Cafe, "Everyone from Asimov to Vinge, from Doctorow to Pohl and more appear here, and there are essays, short stories, novellas . . . everything a Sci fi reader could ask for. . . . I highly recommend Digital Rapture ." www.NerdsInBabeLand.com, "Oh, these stories! . . . Don't stop until all have been read." -- Booklist , starred review on Feeling Very Strange, "Sixteen inspiring, mind-altering stories . . . and every story in the bunch is a knockout." - BoingBoing on Rewired, "All I really want to do, at the moment, is embrace the unsuspecting editors in a massive, spine-crunching bear hug." - Los Angeles Times on The Secret History of Science Fiction, "Sixteen inspiring, mind-altering stories . . . and every story in the bunch is a knockout." BoingBoing on Rewired
Synopsis
When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind?or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or ?the Rapture of the Nerds"? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing scientific speculations. This far-reaching anthology traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality. It travels to the alien far-future of H. G. Wells ( Mind at the End of Its Tether ), to the almost human near-future of Ray Kurzweil ( The Singularity Is Near ), from Elizabeth Bear's fusion of woman, machine, God, and shark (?The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe"), to Isaac Asimov's evolution of ineffable logic (?The Last Question"). As intelligence both figuratively (and possibly literally) explodes, science-fiction authors and futurists have dared to peek over the edge of the event horizon. Join them there., When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind - or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or 'the Rapture of the Nerds'? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing scientific speculations. This far-reaching anthology traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality. It travels to the alien far-future of H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of Its Tether), to the almost human near-future of Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near), from Elizabeth Bear's fusion of woman, machine, God, and shark ('The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe'), to Isaac Asimov's evolution of ineffable logic ('The Last Question'). As intelligence both figuratively (and possibly literally) explodes, science-fiction authors and futurists have dared to peek over the edge of the event horizon. Join them there., When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind--or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or "the Rapture of the Nerds"? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional imaginings and intriguing scientific speculations. This far-reaching anthology traces the path of the Singularity, an era when advances in technology will totally transform human reality. It travels to the alien far-future of H. G. Wells ( Mind at the End of Its Tether ), to the almost human near-future of Ray Kurzweil ( The Singularity Is Near ), from Elizabeth Bear's fusion of woman, machine, God, and shark ("The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe"), to Isaac Asimov's evolution of ineffable logic ("The Last Question"). As intelligence both figuratively (and possibly literally) explodes, science-fiction authors and futurists have dared to peek over the edge of the event horizon. Join them there.
