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Adam Roberts is the author of Beta-Life (2015), Foodie (2025), Spindles (2015), Conceptual Breakthrough (2007), Nations in Arms (1976), The Real-Town Murders (2017).

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Beta-Life

release date: Jun 15, 2015
Beta-Life
Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like a clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too; material evolution and swarm intelligence are creating a new generation of devices that will diverge and disperse into a balanced ecosystem of humans and ‘robjects’ (robotic objects). Somewhere in between, we humans will have to change also… in the way we interact with technology, the roles we adopt in an increasingly ‘intelligent’ environment, and how we interface with each other. The driving motors behind many of these changes will be artificial life (A-Life) and unconventional computing. How exactly they will impact on our world is still an open question. But in the spirit of collective intelligence, this anthology brings together 38 scientists and authors, working in pairs, to imagine what life (and A-Life) will look like in the year 2070. Every kind of technology is imagined: from lie-detection glasses to military swarmbots, brain-interfacing implants to synthetically ‘grown’ skyscrapers, revolution-inciting computer games to synthetically engineered haute cuisine. All artificial life is here. Featuring scientific contributions from: Martyn Amos, J. Mark Bishop, Seth Bullock, Stephen Dunne, James Dyke, Christian Jantzen, Francesco Mondada, James D. O'Shea, Andrew Philippides, Lenka Pitonakova, Steen Rasmussen, Thomas S. Ray, Micah Rosenkind, James Snowdon, Susan Stepney, Germán Terrazas, Andrew Vardy and Alan Winfield. Supported by TRUCE (Training and Research in Unconventional Computation in Europe).

Foodie

release date: Aug 04, 2025
Foodie
Isabella Pasternak houdt van eten. Ze geniet van de schoonheid van een perfect gekookt ei, ze dagdroomt over haar eerste maaltijd bij het beste restaurant in de stad en elke centimeter van haar kleine appartement is bezaaid met kookboeken. Helaas is Isabella op staande voet ontslagen na een rampzalige livestream-demonstratie van soufflés bij het digitale eettijdschrift waar ze werkte. Dus als ze de kans krijgt om een celebrity-kookboek te schrijven met Hollywood-ster Molly Babcock neemt ze die met beide handen aan. Maar al snel blijkt dat hun karakters en doelen behoorlijk botsen en daarnaast lijkt Molly totáál niet geïnteresseerd in eten. Zal het Isabella lukken Molly úít de roddelbladen en ín de keuken te lokken? Of zullen Isabella's toewijding aan haar culinaire idolen en Molly's monsterlijke ego het hele kookboek in vlammen doen opgaan?

Spindles

release date: Oct 21, 2015
Spindles
The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries, sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient – a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur, an Orpheus-like voyage through the subconscious daubed with the fantastic. But over the last ten years, our scientific understanding of sleep has been revolutionised. No longer is sleep viewed as a time of simple rest and recuperation. Instead, it is proving to be an intensely dynamic period of brain activity: a vital stage in the re-wiring of memories, the learning of new skills, and the processing of problems and emotions. How will storytelling respond to this new and emerging science of sleep? Here, 14 authors have been invited to work with key scientists to explore various aspects of sleep research: from the possibilities of ‘sleep engineering’ and ‘overnight therapies’, to future-tech ways of harnessing sleep’s problem-solving powers, to the challenges posed by our increasingly 24-hour lifestyles. Just as new hypotheses are being put forward, old hunches are also being confirmed (there’s now a scientific basis for the time-worn advice ‘to sleep on a problem’). As these responses show, sleep and the spinning of stories are still very much entwined. Featuring scientific contributions from: Prof Russell G. Foster, Isabel Hutchison, Dr. Simon Kyle, Dr. Penny Lewis, Dr. Paul Reading, Stephanie Romiszewski, Prof Robert Stickgold, Prof Manuel Schabus, Prof Ed Watkins, Prof Adam Zeman, Dr. Thomas Wehr. This project was supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Conceptual Breakthrough

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Conceptual Breakthrough
Two experimental essays engaging with the science fiction concepts of 'Alien' and 'Star'.

Nations in Arms

Nations in Arms
SCOTT copy 2 from the John Holmes Library collection.

The Real-Town Murders

release date: Aug 24, 2017
The Real-Town Murders
Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people away from the delights of Shine, the immersive successor to the internet. But most people are happy to spend their lives plugged in, and the country is decaying. Alma's partner is ill, and has to be treated without fail every 4 hours, a task that only Alma can do. If she misses the 5 minute window her lover will die. She is one of the few not to access the Shine. So when Alma is called to an automated car factory to be shown an impossible death and finds herself caught up in a political coup, she knows that getting too deep may leave her unable to get home. What follows is a fast-paced Hitchcockian thriller as Alma evades arrest, digs into the conspiracy, and tries to work out how on earth a dead body appeared in the boot of a freshly-made car in a fully-automated factory.

L'Appel du large

release date: Jan 14, 2013
L'Appel du large
La naissance d'un tout nouveau type d'IA avec son premier specimen, SoieVerte...

Bingo le Posstit

release date: Nov 22, 2012
Bingo le Posstit
Bingo Pacquet est un posstit menant une existence paisible. À part ses pieds,atrophiés, arthritiques et éléphantiasiques -, rien ne semble pouvoir troubler la quiétude de ses jours. Mais son bonheur prend fin lorsque le magicien Glandalf et une compagnie de nains gallois l'embarquent pour l'aventure. Ils projettent de faire main basse sur un trésor gardé par Snob, un dragon d'un ennui mortel. Ah oui : Bingo découvre aussi une espèce d'anneau,mais est-ce vraiment important...

Sternensturm

release date: Nov 17, 2014
Sternensturm
Nichts ist, wie es scheint Stellen Sie sich ein Universum vor, das nach ganz anderen physikalischen Regeln funktioniert. In dem die Planeten so eng aneinander liegen, dass man mit Flugzeugen und Zeppelinen zwischen ihnen hin- und herfliegen kann. In dem sich die menschliche Zivilisation wie Nomaden von einer Welt zur nächsten bewegt. Und in dem es ein wohlgehütetes Geheimnis gibt. Denn dieses Universum ist eine perfide Illusion ...

Sternenstaub

release date: Nov 27, 2014
Sternenstaub
Nichts zu verlieren Ae wird für ein Verbrechen bestraft, das in der zukünftigen Gesellschaft, in der er lebt, nur noch selten vorkommt: Mord. Nanotechnologie macht es beinahe unmöglich, einen Menschen zu töten, und dementsprechend fällt Aes Strafe aus: In dem High-Tech-Gefängnis wird ihm nach und nach seine eigene Nanotechnik entfernt, sodass er eines natürlichen Todes sterben wird. Er hat also nichts mehr zu verlieren, und als eine geheimnisvolle Agentur an ihn herantritt und ihm einen Deal vorschlägt, der Millionen Menschen das Leben kosten könnte, willigt er ein ...

Gradisil

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Gradisil
Dans un futur proche, si votre compte en banque est bien rempli, ou si vous êtes très fort en bricolage, l'espace vous appartient. De riches amateurs se font construire des habitats spatiaux - de simples conteneurs métalliques étanches équipés de recycleurs d'air - et les expédient en orbite autour de la Terre, pour servir de résidence secondaire. La vue est, paraît-il, magnifique. Une vie nouvelle et libre commence là-haut, loin des interférences gouvernementales de la Terre. Qui ne voudrait échapper aux complications de la société ? Aux griffes des corporations ? A l'amour étouffant d'une famille ? Mais la tradition, la peur et le désir de vengeance engendrent leur propre pesanteur meurtrière. L'assassinat du grand-père de Gradisil, loin dans les Hauteurs, au-dessus de la Terre, n'était qu'un commencement. A présent, le gouvernement des États-Unis commencé à lever des yeux pleins d'envie vers la nouvelle nation qui flotte au-dessus de leurs têtes...

Civilian Resistance as a National Defence

Food Person

release date: Jan 01, 2025
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