A short novel grappling with memory, identity, and ownership in an alternate version of the 1920s where the elite's memories can be removed and exist as clones
These beings, known as Vril-ya, live underground, but are planning soon to claim the surface of the earth as their own, destroying humankind in the process.
A man at a train station first requests a destination which does not exist - then winks out of existence in a moment.
The book updates the image of this creature to present a version of 'transhumanism' that breaks with the more precautionary and pessimistic approaches of humanity's future in contemporary 'posthumanist' thought.
Staying Human is the latest addition to Bloodaxe's bestselling Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies.
The invention of the Inter-Universe Electron Pump has threatened the rate of hydrogen fusion in the sun, leading, inevitably, to the possibility of a vast explosion - and the vapourisation of the Earth exactly eight minutes later.
What is Man?: And Other Essays
In Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use physics to prevent an alien invasion; to coal mines in northern China where new technology will either save ...