Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World

ISBN 10: 076538258X / ISBN 13: 9780765382580

Published by Tor Books, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076538258X
• ISBN 13: 9780765382580
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents Chasing Shadows, a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries. As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brothers―watching, judging, and reporting on one another?

Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technologic transparency in all its permutations.

About the Authors

David Brin is a scientist, speaker, technical consultant and world-known author. His books include The Uplift Saga, Kiln People, and Existence, and his novels have been New York Times bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. Brin lives near San Diego, California, with his wife and their three children.

STEPHEN W. POTTS is a professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego specializing in twentieth-century fiction and popular culture. With David Brin, Potts is the editor of Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World.