Silicon Dreams [Paperback]

Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor), Larry Segriff (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2001

Fresh from the data banks of today's most popular science fiction writers comes this all-new collection of original tales. The subject is technology-from robots and androids to computers with minds of their own-and the stories definitely give new meaning to the words "intelligent life."

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About the Author

Paul Levinson has a story in Silicon Dreams.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: DAW; paperback / softback edition (November 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075640018X
• ISBN-13: 978-0756400187
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,575,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

My novel The Silk Code won the 2000 Locus Award for Best First Novel. I've since published Borrowed Tides (2001),The Consciousness Plague (2002), and The Pixel Eye (2003). The Plot To Save Socrates published in 2006 - Entertainment Weekly called it "challenging fun". My science fiction and mystery short stories have been nominated for Nebula, Hugo, Edgar, and Sturgeon Awards. Nine nonfiction books, including The Soft Edge (1997), Digital McLuhan (1999), Realspace (2003), Cellphone (2004), and New New Media (2009) have been the subject of major articles in the New York Times, Wired, the Christian Science Monitor, and have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and eight other languages. I appear from time to time on "The O'Reilly Factor," "The CBS Evening News," "Nightline," "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and other TV and radio programs - I like talking just as much as writing. I'm also a songwriter, and have been in several bands over the years - one had two records out on Atlantic Records in 1960s. My 1972 album Twice Upon a Rhyme (on HappySad Records) was re-issued on CD by Beatball/Big Pink Records in 2009, and on re-pressed vinyl by Whiplash/Sound of Salvation Records in 2010. I was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Top 10 Academic Twitterers" in 2009. And last but not least: I'm Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 50/50 shot, December 2, 2002

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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silicon Dreams (Paperback)

Of the twelve stories in this collection, about half are really outstanding for their story-telling and their ability to make the reader feel empathy with the characters. Each story is fairly original as the front cover claims, the robots aren't just servants, they represent social conflicts, have personalities, and sometimes are the only characters around. For me, that isn't enough, I have to want to keep reading because I care about the characters. The best story is a tie between Rusch's touching tell of a poor family in 'A Helping Hand' and Nye's equally touching 'Sacrifices' where a fairly wealthy but constantly moving family loses one of its "own". The worse is easily 'K-232' by Collins because its really more of a short essay on what its like to explore the universe than anything that really pushes our concepts of humanity or paints a future picture. And that is important since one of the editor, Larry Segriff, says that this is a collection about our children, humanities children in the form of robots.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great stories by great authors., May 28, 2003

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Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silicon Dreams (Paperback)

The stories in this book made me laugh, they made me sad and they made me think. But of course, they happen to be by some of the greatest sci-fi authors ever. You DON'T get bad stories from James P. Hogan, William H. Keith Jr., Jody Lynn Nye and the rest within this book. 12 stories that you CAN'T be without if you love articial intelligence, robots or sci-fi in general.