W. T. Quick

"In a time of protracted economic crisis, failing political systems, and impending environmental collapse, one strand in our collective cultural myth of Progress--the technological--remains vibrantly intact, surging into the future at ramming speed. Amid the seemingly exponential proliferation of machine intelligence and network connectivity, and the increasingly portentous implications of emerging nanotechnology, futurists and fabulists look to an imminent historical threshold whereupon the nature of human existence will be radically and irrevocably transformed. The Singularity, it is supposed, can be no more than a few years off; indeed, some believe it has already begun. Technological Singularity--a trope conceived in science fiction and subsequently adopted throughout technocultural discourse and beyond--is the primary site of interpenetration between technoscientific and science-fictional figurations of the future, a territory where longstanding binary oppositions between science and fiction, and between present and future, are rapidly dissolving. In this groundbreaking volume, the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity as a subject for theory and cultural studies, Raulerson draws SF texts into a complex dialogue with contemporary digital culture, transhumanist movements, political and economic theory, consumer gadgetry, gaming, and related vectors of high-tech postmodernity. In theorizing Singularity as a metaphorical construct lending shape to a range of millennial anxieties and aspirations, Singularities also makes the case for a recent and little-understood subgeneric formation--postcyberpunk SF--as a cohesive body of work, engaged in a shared literary project that is simultaneously shaping, and shaped by, purportedly nonfictional technoscientific discourses"--Publisher.

Garry thinks he knows something that all of humankind would kill to have, the secret to the Faster-Than-Light drive. He believes that it is inside a Kurs’ggthan artifact. When a little man enters his father’s pawnshop and offers to sell the very artifact Garry has been searching for, he is bewildered by his good fortune. But he may not be as fortunate as he thinks. Now that he holds the key to the Faster-Than-Light drive, his father’s business has been destroyed, Garry’s on the run, his father is in critical condition and there are interstellar agents around every corner. Then Garry is posed with the question, is he helping to advance the human race or aiding in destroying it?

He is the master of information retrieval. A genius of finding out anything that anyone needs to know. All you have to do is call Josh Tower and have the loot in-hand and you will discover the answer to any question you may have. Once upon a time he was working for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the deadly arm of the government, but that was before he met Julie and his eyes were forced open. But a tragic accident has claimed lovely Julie’s life and the master hunter’s soul has once again been darkened. The question is, was Julie’s death the result of a simple air-taxi accident or was there a sinister ploy behind the loss of his love? His investigation is turning up far more than foul play. It is revealing a deadly plot originating with his former employer, the DIA. But there is another dark shadow pursing the master hunter. The hunt is on, but who is the feline in this fatal game of cat and mouse?

Double En, the most powerful corporation ever created, and its founders, Nakamura and Norton, are two of the most brilliant minds in history. But now they have launched a private war against each other and winner takes all. While Norton is hidden deep inside the heart of the Double En's mainframe, Nakamura is busy hiring the very best in computer warfare -- that's Iceberg Berg, master of security systems. No one can penetrate a barrier he has created, except for one woman, his ex-wife, Icebreaker Calley. No wall has ever been barred to her. Together again, they face the impossible task of separating Norton from his beloved matrix before the man becomes the computer and the computer becomes more powerful than anything humanity has ever seen.