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    Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future

    By Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer

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    Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, some of today's leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries have come together in this anthology of stories, set in the near future, that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction

    Born of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable collection unites a diverse group of celebrated authors, prominent scientists, and creative visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Charlie Jane Anders, David Brin, and Neal Stephenson—who contributed works of "techno-optimism" that challenge us to imagine fully, think broadly, and do Big Stuff.

    Inside this volume you will find marvels of imagination and possibility, including a steel tower so tall that the stratosphere is just an elevator ride away . . . a drone-powered Internet . . . crowdfunded robots descending on the moon . . . cities that work like a single cell of algae powered entirely by the sun . . . and much more.

    Engaging, mind-bending, provocative, and imaginative, Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future offers a forward-thinking approach to the intersection of art and technology that has the power to change our world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 9, 2014
    ISBN9780062204707
    Author

    Ed Finn

    Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. He has worked as a journalist at Time, Slate, and Popular Science.

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    • 2/5
      Three stars is an average; some stories were self-important and tiresome ("Atmosphæra Incognita", "A Hotel in Antarctica," “The Man Who Sold the Stars”, "The Man Who Sold the Moon") but some had ideas I'll be thinking about for a long time ("Girl in Wave: Wave in Girl", "Entanglement", "Degrees of Freedom" and especially "Covenant.")
    • 3/5
      The 2,5 stories I re-read were well enough done that I had no painful memories of them, but I had no powerful memories either.
    • 4/5
      An unusually interesting concept anthology, Hieroglyph grew out of an idea of Neil Stephenson's about the smallness of our current technical endeavors. To put it another way,why write a better app when the stars are calling? Most of these stories are good science fiction reads in themselves, and most are intriguing treatments of big ideas, some of them using current technologies and some of them encouraging development of existing technologies.
    • 4/5
      I guess like any anthology this one is hit-and-miss.

      Neal Stephenson's story was a disappointment (roughly distilled in his answer at the Seattle stop on the book tour to a question from the crowd "Who will take over the role the government used to play in making this sort of Big Thing happen?": "Benevolent Billionaires"), Cory Doctorow's was optimistic and wonderful even if it seemed almost a caricature of his own style, and Bruce Sterling's story to cap the collection was dark and surprisingly funny.
    • 3/5
      Some good stories, others are tech bro fantasies. Odd visions of a "better" future....