{"id":2992,"date":"2014-02-18T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T23:18:42","slug":"stuff-received-2182014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2014\/02\/18\/stuff-received-2182014\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff received 2\/18\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take\u00a0a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound.<\/p>\n

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The Future of the Mind<\/a>
\nThe Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

by Michio Kaku<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New York Times\u00a0<\/i>best-selling author of\u00a0Physics of the Impossible<\/a>, Physics of the Future<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Hyperspace<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>tackles the most fascinating and complex\u00a0object\u00a0in the\u00a0known universe:\u00a0the human brain.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a\u00a0battery of\u00a0high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of science fiction has become a startling reality. Recording memories, telepathy, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis are not only possible; they already exist.
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\nThe Future of the Mind<\/i>\u00a0gives us an authoritative and compelling look at the astonishing\u00a0research being done in\u00a0top laboratories around the world\u2014all based on the latest advancements in neuroscience and physics. \u00a0One day we might have a “smart pill” that can\u00a0enhance our cognition; be able to upload our brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; send thoughts and emotions\u00a0around the world on a “brain-net”; control computers and robots with our mind; push the very limits of immortality; and perhaps\u00a0even send our consciousness across the universe.<\/p>\n

Dr. Kaku takes us on a grand tour of what the future might hold, giving us not only a solid sense of how the brain functions but also how these technologies will change our daily lives. He even presents a radically new way to think about “consciousness” and applies it to provide\u00a0fresh insight into\u00a0mental illness, artificial intelligence and alien consciousness.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0Dr. Kaku’s\u00a0deep understanding of modern science and keen eye for future developments,\u00a0The Future of the Mind<\/i>\u00a0is a scientific tour de force–an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful Darkness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n

Script by Fabien Vehlmann
\nArt by Kerasco\u00ebt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kerasco\u00ebt\u2019s and Fabien Vehlmann\u2019s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization’s heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience.\u00a0 The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerasco\u00ebt\u2019s delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann’s story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over.\u00a0\u00a0Beautiful Darkness<\/i>\u00a0is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0review Beautiful Darkness<\/em>\u00a0in the next Nexus Graphica<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Quick<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n

by Lauren Owen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London<\/b>
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\nLondon, 1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society, and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Unnerved, his sister, Charlotte, sets out from their crumbling country estate determined to find him. In the sinister, labyrinthine city that greets her, she uncovers a secret world at the margins populated by unforgettable characters: a female rope walker turned vigilante, a street urchin with a deadly secret, and the chilling \u201cDoctor Knife.\u201d But the answer to her brother\u2019s disappearance ultimately lies within the doors of one of the country\u2019s preeminent and mysterious institutions: The Aegolius Club, whose members include the most ambitious, and most dangerous, men in England.<\/p>\n

In her first novel, Lauren Owen has created a fantastical world that is both beguiling and terrifying.\u00a0The Quick<\/i>\u00a0will establish her as one of fiction\u2019s most dazzling talents.<\/p>\n

Named One of the Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of the Season by\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/b>
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2014<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n

Edited by Kij Johnson
\nCover by Grace M. Conti-Zilsberger<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The latest volume of the prestigious anthology series, published annually across six decades!<\/b><\/p>\n

The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America\u00ae . The editor selected by SFWA’s anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) is American fantasy writer Kij Johnson, author of three novels and associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n

This year’s Nebula winners, and expected contributors, are Kim Stanley Robinson, Nancy Kress, Andy Duncan, and Aliette de Bodard, with E.C. Myers winning the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Book.<\/p>\n

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The Dagger of Trust<\/strong><\/a>
\nPathfinder Tales<\/em><\/h1>\n

by Chris Willrich
\nCover art by Lucas Graciano<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gideon Gull leads a double life: one as a talented young bard at the Rhapsodic College, the other as a student of the Shadow School, where Taldor’s infamous Lion Blades are trained to be master spies and assassins. When a magical fog starts turning ordinary people into murderous mobs along the border between Taldor and Gideon’s home nation of Andoran, it’s up to him and a crew of daring performers to solve the mystery before both nations fall to madness and slaughter. But how do you fight an enemy that turns innocent people into weapons? From critically acclaimed author Chris Willrich comes a bold new adventure of intrigue, espionage, and arcane mystery, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.<\/p>\n

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The Silk Map<\/em><\/a>
\nA Gaunt and Bone Novel<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Chris Willrich
\nCover by Kerem Beyit<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It’s Brent Weeks meets China Mieville in this wildly imaginative fantasy adventure featuring high action, elegant writing, and sword and sorcery with a Chinese flare.<\/b><\/p>\n

At the end of\u00a0The Scroll of Years<\/i>, the poet Persimmon Gaunt and her husband, the thief Imago Bone, had saved their child from evil forces at the price of trapping him within a pocket dimension. Now they will attempt what seems impossible; they will seek a way to recover their son. Allied with Snow Pine, a scrappy bandit who’s also lost her child to the Scroll of Years, Gaunt and Bone awaken the Great Sage, a monkeylike demigod of the East, currently trapped by vaster powers beneath a mountain. The Sage knows of a way to reach the Scroll — but there is a price. The three must seek the world’s greatest treasure and bring it back to him. They must find the worms of the alien Iron Moths, whose cocoons produce the wondrous material ironsilk.<\/p>\n

And so the rogues join a grand contest waged along three thousand miles of dangerous and alluring trade routes between East and West. For many parties have simultaneously uncovered fragments of the Silk Map, a document pointing the way toward a nest of the Iron Moths. Our heroes tangle with Western treasure hunters, a blind mystic warrior and his homicidal magic carpet, a nomad princess determined to rebuild her father’s empire, and a secret society obsessed with guarding the lost paradise where the Moths are found — even if paradise must be protected by murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take\u00a0a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. The Future of the Mind The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku \u00a0Promo copy: The New York Times\u00a0best-selling author of\u00a0Physics of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n