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Title:

Chasing shadows : visions of our coming transparent world / edited by David Brin and Stephen W. Potts ; sponsored by the Arthur C. Clarke center for human imagination (UCSD).

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Tora Tom Doherty Associates book,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

336 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Transparency in government--Fiction.
Responsibility--Fiction.
Privacy--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Brin, David, editor.
Potts, Stephen W., 1949- editor.
Skillingstead, Jack, 1955- Mine, yours, ours.
Brin, David. Insistence of vision.
Fulda, Nancy. Planetbound.
Sawyer, Robert J. Right's tough.
Fitzpatrick, R. C. Circuit riders.
Morrow, James, 1947- Werewolves of Maplewood.
Gibson, William, 1948- Road to Oceania.
Knight, Damon, 1922-2002. I see you.
Walton, David, 1975- Eyejacked.
Kaftan, Vylar. FeastWar.

Contents:

A David Brin. Tsunami of light / Jack Skillingstead -- Insistence of vision / David Brin -- Planetbound / Nancy Fulda -- Right's tough / Robert J. Sawyer -- Circuit riders / R. C. Fitzpatrick -- Werewolves of Maplewood / James Morrow -- Road to Oceania / William Gibson -- I see you / Damon Knight -- Eyejacked / David Walton -- FeastWar / Vylar Kaftan, -- Your lying eyes / Jack McDevitt -- Disaster stack / Vernor Vinge -- First presentation / Aliette de Bodard -- Aftershift memories / David Ramirez -- Spew / Neal Stephenson -- Private life in cyberspace / John Perry Barlow -- Elderjoy / Gregory Benford -- Street life in the Emerald City / Brenda Cooper -- Eyes have it / Stephen W. Potts -- Preferences / Cat Rambo -- Vectors / Stephen Gaskell -- Public domain / Scott Sigler -- To see the Invisible Man / Robert Silverberg -- The Disconnected / Ramez Naam -- Eminence / Karl Schroeder -- Sport / Kathleen Ann Goonan -- Elephant on table / Bruce Sterling -- A Tsunami of light / David Brin.

Summary:

David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents Chasing 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 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.

ISBN:

076538258X
9780765382580

LCCN:

bl2017000081

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)