Psychohistorical Crisis

A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he can barely function amidst the bewildering complexities of everyday life on Splendid Wisdom. Here, on the capital world of the galaxy's Second Empire, everyone from the meanest citizen to the ruling Pscholars has depended upon a fam since childhood. Without one, simply navigating the streets and levels of the planetary megalopolis is a paralyzing challenge. Lost along with such everyday survival skills were many of Eron's memories and his professional knowledge. The crime he committed must have been terrible to warrant such a dreadful punishment. If only he could remember what it was!

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Kingsbury, Donald

Science Fiction

Tor Books

The detail of this rare story has to be read to believed

Courtship Rite

Timescape Books: Distributed by Simon and

The Moon Goddess and the Son

The late-1980s launching of a mammoth, full-scale Soviet space station prompts the United States to a crash program that, by 2010, surpasses all Soviet endeavors, results in an unprecedented economic boom, and catapults humankind fully into space

Literature & Fiction

United States

Baen

The late-1980s launching of a mammoth, full-scale Soviet space station prompts the United States to a crash program that, by 2010, surpasses all Soviet endeavors, results in an unprecedented economic boom, and catapults humankind fully into space

Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the formFrom Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view--all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.The last moments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear's Judgment Engine. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stutters to an eerie halt?Genesis by Poul Anderson is set a billion years ahead, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened by the slowly warming sun, and vast machine intelligences decide to recreate humans.Donald Kingsbury contributes Historical Crisis, a starting work on the prediction of the human future that challenges the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy.Joe Haldeman's For White Hill confronts humanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense against them. A lone artist struggles to find a place in this distant, wondrous future when humanity seems doomed.In At the Eschaton by Charles Sheffield, a man tries to rescue his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, in both space and time, to the very end of the universe itself.

Far Futures Lib/E

SHEFFIELD, CHARLES

Bear,Greg

ANDERSON, POUL.

Haldeman,Joe

Skyboat Media

Parade Nuptiale

Genre Fiction

Фоліо

This book addresses the intersection of extractivism, populism, and accountability. Although populist politics are often portrayed as a driver of poor environmental governance,&nbsp;Populist Moments and Extractivist States&nbsp;identifies it as an intervening variable at best - one that emerges in response to the accountability deficits of extractive states. Case studies in Venezuela - for many, the prototypical petrostate - and Ecuador - which exchanged agribusiness dependency for oil decades later - illustrate how extractive states are oriented by a colonial logic&nbsp;of export and service. This logic regulates state-society-nature relationships and circumscribes avenues for local stakeholders to hold public officials and extractive industries to account for environmental and human harms. Populist moments of the early 21st century across Latin America responded to these conditions, promising more equitable and sustainable futures. However, rather than reversing the technocracy, verticalism, and exclusion of the recent past, populist moments often intensified and legitimated them in the drive to maximize and distribute resource rents. The result has been cyclical, as populist moments of hope and rupture fall prey to the extractivist states they tried, and failed, to replace.&nbsp;

Populist Moments and Extractivist States in Venezuela and Ecuador: The People’s Oil?

Business & Money

Kramarz, Teresa

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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