Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow
Hex Publications, 2016. Softcover. Item #5204
ISBN: 9780996403917
A softcover edition complete with bonus, unopened CD soundtrack, signed by the author across the title of his short story contribution. Uncommon to find this edition signed. In Near Fine condition with trace signs of shelf wear.
Paolo Bacigalupi is best known for "The Windup Girl" and the "Ship Breaker" series. Signed in person by Bacigalupi during his press tour for his novel "Navola" where he spoke of the pleasures of Italy and the complicated grief that comes with writing about climate change.
"Cyber World: The World of Tomorrow" is a collection of futuristic and speculative fiction addressing the hopes and fears regarding humanity's tomorrow. In an interview with "Fiction Unbound" Bacigalupi spoke to C. S. Peterson about writing in this genre: "I think the function of writing these broken futures is to create a future world that contextualizes the present. We aren't bio-adapted to deal with abstract threats or future concerns. We are very well designed to weigh the present moment, the immediate threat. Ideally, with fiction you can hack the human brain and make that future feel real long before it is. I send people out into this really crazy strange future, right? It's all broken....But the way I think about it is like a rubber band. I stretch it all the way out, and when the reader snaps back into this present moment suddenly they're looking around and it's like they've got a different set of eyes."
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