Book Overview
Are aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the death of the body really necessary? Here are a very large number of very small fictions on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in eight-hundred-word modules. All of them are entertaining and as a group they are a startling repository of ideas and attitudes about the future. These pieces were originally published in the great science journal Nature between 1999 and 2006, as one-page features that proved very popular with readers. This is a unique book, of interest to any reader who might like to speculate about the future.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0765318067
ISBN13:9780765318060
Release Date:October 2008
Publisher:Tor Books
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.68 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Good book for smart teenagers
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
My 14 year old son really liked this book. Small enough bites that you can digest at one sitting, but challenging as well.
Excellent for airport security lines
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
This is a great book to dip into for a few minutes at a time. The pieces are short enough to finish in a few minutes each and they (mostly) provide decent enough food for thought. It's perfect for those times when you just need to stay somewhat engaged with your surroundings (waiting around for something to happen) but risk dying of boredom or frustration if you don't do something. Don't think I could face reading the whole thing in one shot though....
Delightful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
These are mostly 1-2 page stories, quick reads, but thought-provoking, and it introduces (me to) a lot of authors.
Perfect remedy for short attention spans ;)
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Having read these quite short (a page or two) stories when they came out in Nature, I can say you will enjoy them. I don't recall any that struck me with a deep fascination, but on the other end very few ended up in my mind's recycling bin. The novelty is in having so many "short short" stories compiled, allowing you to read something even with very little time on your hands, and in the nature of their authors, who weren't all science-fiction writers.
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