Cheap Complex Devices: Mind Over Matter Volume Red - Softcover

Sundman, John Compton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1463709250 ISBN 13: 9781463709259

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2002

Synopsis

Winners of the inaugural Hofstadter Prize for machine-written narrative, these artificially constructed stories represent the future of post-human fiction.

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From the Inside Flap

If Charles Dickens had been a parallel processor, if Leo Tolstoy had been made of silicon, if Vladimir Nabokov had written in hexadecimal, if John Updike had a universal power supply and a cooling fan, they might have written Cheap Complex Devices, winners of the inaugual Hofstadter Prize for computer-written novel awarded by the prestigious Society for Analytical Engines. Cheap Complex Devices represents the state of the art in mechanically-constructed narrative, and the future of fiction.

About the Author

John Sundman is the author and publisher of the cyber-nano-biopunk novels Acts of the Apostles, Cheap Complex Devices, and The Pains, and has been called "the future of printed fiction" by pioneering cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling. John has been a manager of technical publications and software engineering at companies in Silicon Valley and Boston, a long-haul truck driver, a construction worker, and a famine relief worker in west Africa. He resides on the island of Martha's Vineyard where he's a volunteer firefighter and food pantry worker. Sundman is also the founder and one of the lead writers at Wetmachine.com, a group blog about, mostly, the nexus of technology, science and social policy in the USA. Wetmechanics also write about software praxis, technoparanoia, the craft of writing, self-publishing, neurobiology, genomics, politics, and random whatnot.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1463709250
• ISBN 13: 9781463709259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132