Transhuman

SUMMARY: The rate of technological development today is exploding. Such diverse technologies as computing, communications, genetics, biology, and nanotechnology are rapidly pushing humanity to a new singularity, a point at which all the rules change and everything we assume about what it means to be human may no longer apply. Leading science fiction writers such as Wil McCarthy, Esther Friesner, James P. Hogan, Hugo-winner David D. Levine, Dave Freer, Wen Spencer, Mark L. Van Name, and others explore this strangest of new frontiers. From a criminal given a last chance at life in a very new kind of existence to a man struggling to claim his own humanity, from battles in the depths of very strange spaces to an amazing new version of keeping up with the Joneses, the stories in Transhuman take you where no human has gone before--but where many of us might one day go. Firewall / David D. Levine -- Reunion / Mark L. Van Name -- The Guardian / Paul Chafe -- Being Human / Wen Spencer -- In Command / John Lambshead -- G@vin45 / Daniel M. Hoyt -- Home For The Holidays / Esther M. Friesner -- Soul Printer / Wil Mccarthy -- Whom The Gods Love / Sarah A. Hoyt -- Wetware 2.0 / Dave Freer -- Escape / James P. Hogan. Edited By Mark L. Van Name And T.k.f. Weisskopf. A Baen Books Original--t.p. Verso. Some of the world's leading science fiction authors explore the cutting-edge world of future technology as the the rules that define what it means to be human are changed forever, in stories by Wil McCarthy, Esther Friesner, James P. Hogan, David D. Levine, Dave Freer, Wen Spencer, Mark L. Van Name, and other notables. Science fiction writers including Hugo-winner David D. Levine and others explore such diverse technologies as computing, communications, genetics, biology, and nanotechnology in stories that take readers where no human has gone before--but where many might one day go