Marc Stiegler

eBook, ePUB

The Braintrust Complete Series Omnibus (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

A Presidency under siege. A worldwide pandemic, followed by a global economic collapse. Is a happy ending even possible?Does real life emulate fiction? Or does fiction emulate real life?All five books of the BrainTrust examine topics ripped from today's headlines: Pandemic, Global Economic Meltdown, Deportation. How closely will the world follow the BrainTrust script?Warning: Political satire included in this near-future hard sf techno-thriller. Please remember the Golden Question: How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving!Long ago, the President for Life expelled all foreign engineers from Silicon Valley. They moved to...The BrainTrust:A fleet of immense cruise liners jammed with teams seeking the next great breakthroughA locus freed of bureaucracy and autocracy, a thorn in the side of every dirtside power.A home for creativity where no problem is unsolvable, but no crisis is as simple as it seems.A clean, well-lighted place for ... ferocious commando assaults, and desperate copter combat.The Heroines:Dash: the plucky mad scientist.Ping: the bouncy itty bitty ninja with the Real Big Gun.Jam: the quiet, resilient commando with the grace of a dancer.The Frightening Fact: A little too much of it is coming true.If you can't laugh about your favorite politician, journey elsewhere.Otherwise, Come Aboard the BrainTrust.Every book a Prometheus Award nominee.?If you like Robert Heinlein, Michael Crichton, Charles Stross, or Ayn Rand, buy your ticket and come aboard.

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Autor

In the age of the dinosaurs, which is to say, in the previous century during the 80s and 90s, I was a science fiction author. During that brief and happy interlude, among other things I wrote Valentina which became a finalist for the Hugo Award, David's Sling which became a finalist for the Prometheus Award, and The Gentle Seduction which was considered by some founders of the field of nanotech to be the best story ever written about the consequences of their work.

Much of that writing was done during interludes between working at and managing various Silicon Valley startup and software companies. Then disaster struck: I got a normal job as a research scientist. I spent all my words writing tech reports and academic journal articles. No strength remained at the end of the day for sf.

Then I retired about the same time as a new era of radicalized politics came upon us, an era that needed a new kind of author: one who could, hopefully with a light and humorous touch, explore through near-future sf the consequences of these competing versions of America. In this fire was forged my largest work, the BrainTrust series. The first three books were nominated for the Prometheus Award, and the fourth and fifth were both finalists.

Having contributed what I could to that conflict of futures, I now launch on a new journey, with a series of thrillers about a world in which the conspiracy theories are promulgated as gruesome psych experiments by far darker and more dangerous clandestine organizations. Could the world really in this much trouble? Hopefully not. And yet...

--marcs

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LMBPN Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781642029031
• Artikelnr.: 62176562