Heaven Engine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781418468521)

A future of designer humans, smart machines, protean technology. Our dwindled descendents exiled to large space stations visit Cleansed Earth occasionally for gravity- and sensory-deprivation therapy. Human longevity, at last attained, ironically creates a Great Plague of Suicidal Despair, Disnovelling, born of the intruding longer prospect of bloody Nature and of the impersonal hurtling cosmic vastitudes. Centwen, a resurrected twentieth century archetype joined by elites and archetypes from other centuries, learns from his tour guides, the superbot, Prodigy, and its human creator, Great Psychodor, about a last-chance project to create not a mythical but a secular, dynamic, intelligent Heaven; and, if it succeeds, whether or not transformed humans and/or their intelligent machines can escape to it.

Author: Albert Clarkson
ISBN-10: 1418468525
ISBN-13: 9781418468521
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 596
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.92lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.00w x 1.40d