Swift Thoughts

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480494763

<DIV>This collection of stories showcases the work of George Zebrowski, one of science fiction&rsquo;s masters and a writer Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robert J. Sawyer has called &ldquo;one of the most philosophically astute writers in science fiction.&rdquo; Like the writers Olaf Stapledon, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stanislaw Lem, Zebrowski explores the &ldquo;big questions&rdquo;&mdash;the expansion of human horizons, and the growth of power over our lives and the world in which we live.<BR /><BR /> In the title story, scientists push the boundaries of human mentality to keep pace with ever-evolving AIs. In &ldquo;The Eichmann Variations,&rdquo;&#160;a finalist for the Nebula Award, exact copies of captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann stand trial for his crimes against humanity, while in &ldquo;The Word Sweep,&rdquo; all speech must be rationed because spoken words take on physical form. In &ldquo;Wound the Wind,&rdquo; another Nebula Award finalist, unchanged humans roam freely until captured by those who know what&rsquo;s best for them, and in &ldquo;Stooges,&rdquo; a visiting alien hijacks the persona of Curly Howard. From hard science fiction (&ldquo;G&ouml;del&rsquo;s Doom&rdquo;) to alternate history (&ldquo;Lenin in Odessa&rdquo;) to first alien contact (&ldquo;Bridge of Silence&rdquo;), and with an introduction by renowned physicist/writer Gregory Benford, this collection presents one of the most distinctive voices writing in the field of science fiction today.</DIV>