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2021 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Fanucci Nel 1992, dopo una bagarre a un concerto di Riot grrrl, la diciassettenne Beth si ritrova in macchina con il fidanzato violento della sua amica morto sul sedile posteriore e accetta di aiutare le sue amiche a nasconderne il corpo. L'evento mette le giovani donne su un percorso di crescente crudeltà e vendetta mentre si rendono conto di quante altre ragazze nel mondo hanno bisogno di protezione. Nel 2022 Tess è una geologa che fa parte di un team di studiosi che viaggiano nel tempo per cambiare la linea temporale e creare un futuro migliore. Ma riscrivere la sequenza temporale non è così semplice come potrebbe sembrare. Come osserva Tess, 'il cambiamento non è mai ovvio e lineare. Spesso il progresso diventa evidente solo quando è ispirazione di una crescita ormai impellente.' Le vite di Tess e Beth si intrecciano quando scoppia una guerra sulla linea temporale: uomini provenienti da un futuro 'antidonna' minacciano di distruggere i viaggi nel tempo per lasciare solo un piccolo gruppo d'élite con il potere di plasmare il passato, il presente e il futuro... un futuro in cui le donne sono state geneticamente modificate per sottomettersi al volere del maschio. Come si uniranno Tess e Beth? Quale ruolo avranno nel sottile filo che lega il passato e il futuro? € 16,00
Scontato: € 7,20
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1918 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Tor Books € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Annalee Newitz Publisher: ORBIT € 10,60
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Tor Books € 24,00
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![]() ![]() Author: NEWITZ ANNALEE Publisher: MPS AUTONOMOUS - NEWITZ ANNALEE - MPS € 18,50
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2017 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Fanucci Terra, 2144. Judith 'Jack' Chen è una vera e propria scienziata-pirata: la sua base operativa è un sottomarino, la sua missione piratare costosi farmaci e produrne delle alternative a basso costo, accessibili a tutti. Una sorta di Robin Hood in un mondo dominato dalle case farmaceutiche. Eppure, qualcosa è andato storto con la sua ultima partita di Zacuity: coloro che ne hanno fatto uso, sono andati incontro a effetti collaterali imprevisti, ridotti a veri e propri automi costretti ad azioni meccaniche e ripetitive che conducono la mente alla follia. Jack sa che se il farmaco da lei messo a punto si diffondesse, l'umanità intera ne sarebbe minacciata. Sulle tracce della scienziata, una coppia alquanto improbabile al soldo delle case farmaceutiche: Eliasz, un tormentato agente sotto copertura, e il suo fedele partner Paladin, un robot. Sarà nella frenetica ricerca di informazioni sul misterioso e potente farmaco di Jack che Eliasz e Paladin riusciranno a stabilire un legame inaspettato, oltre i confini tracciati dalle loro nature così diverse. Un'avventura visionaria, intensa, che esplora i temi della libertà e del libero arbitrio in una società frenetica e frammentata, in cui la differenza tra umanità e intelligenza artificiale è ormai sempre più labile. € 16,00
Scontato: € 7,20
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Anchor Books In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? In this brilliantly speculative work of popular science, Annalee Newitz, editor of io9.com, explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow, from simulating tsunamis or studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities, to cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” or designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever our future holds. € 15,20
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Odle E. V., Newitz Annalee (INT) Publisher: Hilobooks Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a 'clockwork man' appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match in a small English village. Comical yet mind-blowing hijinks ensue. Considered the first cyborg novel, The Clockwork Man was first published in 1923 ? the same year as Karel Capek's pioneering android play, R.U.R. € 12,50
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![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Random House Inc In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters—from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation—resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. But in Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz, science journalist and editor of the science Web site io9.com explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just during the last million years—but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions. This brilliantly speculative work of popular science focuses on humanity’s long history of dodging the bullet, as well as on new threats that we may face in years to come. Most important, it explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow. From simulating tsunamis to studying central Turkey’s ancient underground cities; from cultivating cyanobacteria for “living cities” to designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective; from using math to stop pandemics to studying the remarkable survival strategies of gray whales, scientists and researchers the world over are discovering the keys to long-term resilience and learning how humans can choose life over death. Newitz’s remarkable and fascinating journey through the science of mass extinctions is a powerful argument about human ingenuity and our ability to change. In a world populated by doomsday preppers and media commentators obsessively forecasting our demise, Scatter, Adapt, and Remember is a compelling voice of hope. It leads us away from apocalyptic thinking into a future where we live to build a better world—on this planet and perhaps on others. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever the future holds. € 22,40
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee (EDT), Anders Charlie (EDT) Publisher: Seal Pr She's Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and aren't afraid to match wits with men or computers. More than anything, She's Such a Geek is a celebration and call to arms: it's a hopeful book which looks forward to a day when women will invent molecular motors, design the next ultra-tiny supercomputer, and run the government. € 14,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Newitz Annalee Publisher: Duke Univ Pr In Pretend We're Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the unfettered lust for profit, fictional monsters act out the problems with an economic system that seems designed to eat people whole. Newitz looks at representations of serial killers, mad doctors, the undead, cyborgs, and unfortunates mutated by their involvement with the mass media industry. Whether considering the serial killer who turns murder into a kind of labor by mass producing dead bodies, or the hack writers and bloodthirsty actresses trapped inside Hollywood's profit-mad storytelling machine, she reveals that each creature has its own tale to tell about how a freewheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. Newitz tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through b movies, Hollywood blockbusters, pulp fiction, and American literary classics, looking at their manifestations in works such as Norman Mailer's “true life novel” The Executioner's Song; the short stories of Isaac Asimov and H. P. Lovecraft; the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson and Marge Piercy; true-crime books about the serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer; and movies including Modern Times (1936), Donovan's Brain (1953), Night of the Living Dead (1968), RoboCop (1987), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001). Newitz shows that as literature and film tell it, the story of American capitalism since the late nineteenth century is a tale of body-mangling, soul-crushing horror. € 22,80
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1996 |
![]() ![]() Author: Wray Matt (EDT), Newitz Annalee (EDT) Publisher: Taylor & Francis First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. € 117,90
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