Genesis

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Author(s):

Poul Anderson

First Pub:

1995

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2021

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Artificial intelligence - Fiction
science fiction

Chapters:

See 4

Part One

Chapters 1-9

Part Two

Chapters 1-12

Internal ID:

2854

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

To Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin, Killer Bees and cosmic craftsmen

First Sentence:

The story is of a man, a woman, and a world.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

And she will abide, waiting for judgement from the stars.

Comments:

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Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 23-Nov-2020

Last Updated: 06-Dec-2023

Publications

01-Aug-2012

Blackstone Audio, Inc

Book on CD

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Aug-2012

Format:

Book on CD

Cover Price:

$29.95

Length:

7 hrs 8 min (260 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 28 Jan 2021 - 30 Jan 2021

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33397

Publisher:

Blackstone Audio, Inc

ISBN:

1-441-79451-4

ISBN-13:

978-1-441-79451-2

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Tom Weiner - Narration

From amazon.com:

Artificial intelligence has developed to a point where human intelligence can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. A billion years later, Astronaut Christian Brannock must stop something terrible from happening to Earth.

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Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

Poul Anderson
Birth: 25 Nov 1926 Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Jul 2001 Orinda, California, USA

Notes:

From "About Poul Anderson" in the 1985 edition of Brain Wave:

What would happen if...

Those are magic words, and the writer who chooses to follow out their intention finds himself suddenly released, in a world unbounded by here and now and open to the farthest reaches of logic and imagination. What would happen if philosophers were kings, if men could live forever, if the human race could suddenly surmount the limits of its present intelligence?

Such a train of thought has been the starting point for some of the most fascinating works of imaginative fiction, and it is to this class of informed speculation that BRAIN WAVE belongs. Poul Anderson (the pronunciation lies midway between "pole" and "powl") is, like many of the best writers in science fiction, a graduate physicist. (The physical sciences seem to be producing as many authors as medicine did a generation ago.) As such, he brings to fiction that sense of the possible that the widening horizon of science often bestows.

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I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
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