Series in Cybernetics
Books in Cybernetics
Deep Core
"If you want to see where AI is headed, the Coruscant series will show you," Amazon reader. “An original and expertly plotted hard-sci-fi romp." Publishers Weekly BookLife. "Intriguing ... engaging ... mysterious ... fascinating ... has twists upon twists." Readers Favorite AJ is a maintenance tech at Sol Vista care facility. He likes the quiet life. Visiting with his ma. A burger at Fatty's. Surfing the Shifting Sea. Staying in flow. But his flow gets sorely disrupted when a new resident moves into Sol Vista and AJ soon finds himself on the run from an interplanetary assassin, trying to track down a hacker otherwise known as Destroyer of Worlds, all so he can save the life of his new girlfriend, who turns out NOT to be the laid back, Territorian skater girl he thought she was. Sometimes the flow is hard to find, even for a cyber. All books in the Coruscant series are stand-alone stories, set in the Coruscant universe.
Dialogues
The first English translation of a nonfiction work by Stanisław Lem, which was "conceived under the spell of cybernetics" in 1957 and updated in 1971. In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues , a book "conceived under the spell of cybernetics," as he wrote in the preface to the second edition. Mimicking the form of Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous , Lem's original dialogue was an attempt to unravel the then-novel field of cybernetics. It was a testimony, Lem wrote later, to "the almost limitless cognitive optimism" he felt upon his discovery of cybernetics. This is the first English translation of Lem's Dialogues, including the text of the first edition and the later essays added to the second edition in 1971. For the second edition, Lem chose not to revise the original. Recognizing the naivete of his hopes for cybernetics, he constructed a supplement to the first dialogue, which consists of two critical essays, the first a summary of the evolution of cybernetics, the second a contribution to the cybernetic theory of the "sociopathology of governing," amending the first edition's discussion of the pathology of social regulation; and two previously published articles on related topics. From the vantage point of 1971, Lem observes that original book, begun as a search for methods "that would increase our understanding of both the human and nonhuman worlds," was in the end "an expression of the cognitive curiosity and anxiety of modern thought."
The Cybernetic Samurai
In the aftermath of World War III, Japan guards its hard-earned prosperity with Tokugawa, an unsettlingly complex, computer-based sentient intelligence with volition and self-awareness
The Cybernetic Shogun
Following an act of nuclear hara-kiri initiated by the first computer to possess genuine intelligence, the superconductor samurai's two offspring battle over how best to save humanity from total destruction