Transhuman
Edited by Mark L. Van Name and T. K. F. Weisskopf.
The rate of technological development today is exploding. Such diverse technologies as computing, communications, genetics, biology, and nanotechnology are rapidly pushing humanity to a new singularity, a point at which all the rules change and everything we assume about what it means to be human may no longer apply.
Leading science fiction writers such as Wil McCarthy, Esther Friesner, James P. Hogan, Hugo-winner David D. Levine, Dave Freer, Wen Spencer, Mark L. Van Name, and others explore this strangest of new frontiers.
From a criminal given a last chance at life in a very new kind of existence to a man struggling to claim his own humanity, from battles in the depths of very strange spaces to an amazing new version of keeping up with the Joneses, the stories in Transhuman take you where no human has gone before – but where many of us might one day go.
Contents:
- Introduction by Mark L. Van Name
- Firewall by David D. Levine
- Reunion by Mark L. Van Name
- The Guardian by Paul Chafe
- Being Human by Wen Spencer
- In Command by John Lambshead
- G@vin45 by Daniel M. Hoyt
- Home for the Holidays by Esther M. Friesner
- Soul Printer by Wil McCarthy
- Whom the Gods Love by Sarah A. Hoyt
- Wetware 2.0 by Dave Freer (as by David Freer)
- Escape by James P. Hogan
T. K. F. Weisskopf
Toni Weisskopf is the Publisher of Baen Books. With Josepha Sherman she compiled and annotated the definitive volume of subversive children's folklore, Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts, published by August House, now in its third printing. Weisskopf is a graduate of Oberlin College with a degree in anthropology.