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Häftad, Engelska, 2020
131 kr
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***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.As Brexit grips Britain, Ry, a young transgender doctor, is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist, Professor Victor Stein. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his Mum again, is set to make his fortune with a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.Ranging from 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley pens her radical first novel, to a cryonics facility in present-day Arizona where the dead wait to return to life, Frankissstein shows us how much closer we are to the future than we realise.'Intelligent and inventive...very funny' The Times 'One of the most gifted writers working today' New York Times
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
283 kr
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Om kropparna vi lever i och om kropparna vi vill ha. Det är en regnig och kylig sommar 1816 vid Genève-sjön, där ett litet sällskap, bestående av Byron, Shelley och Mary Shelley samlas. De roar sig med spökhistorier och samtal om möjligheten att väcka en död människa till nytt liv. Till en mässa i Memphis tvåhundra år senare anländer Ry Shelley, läkare och transperson, för att studera robotars påverkan på människans hälsa. Han bekantar sig snabbt med den vackra receptionisten Claire och walesaren Ron Lord, som producerar avancerade sex-robotar, och träffar också den karismatiske Victor Stein. Jeanette Winterson har gjort ett lekfullt omtag på Mary Shelleys klassiska ”Frankenstein”. En bok om AI och flytande könsgränser.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
262 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 201997 kr
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***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire.As Brexit grips Britain, Ry, a young transgender doctor, is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist, Professor Victor Stein. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his Mum again, is set to make his fortune with a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.Ranging from 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley pens her radical first novel, to a cryonics facility in present-day Arizona where the dead wait to return to life, Frankissstein shows us how much closer we are to the future than we realise.'Intelligent and inventive...very funny' The Times 'One of the most gifted writers working today' New York Times
Häftad, Tyska, 2021
179 kr
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E-bok
Katalanska, 2020102 kr
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«Una història d''amor radical i contemporània, d''una de les escriptores en actiu amb més talent.» The New York TimesEl 1816 Mary Shelley escriu un relat sobre la creació d''una forma de vida no biològica, sobre els límits de la raó i sobre allò que considerem humà. Anys després, a la Gran Bretanya post-Brexit, Ry Shelley, un jove transgènere, s''endinsa al món de la intel·ligència artificial i s''enamora d''en Victor Stein, un professor que lidera el debat públic al voltant de noves formes d''existència.Frankissstein ens parla dels cossos que habitem i dels que desitgem. Ens suggereix que el futur no és només a les mans de científics arrogants, sinó que també és terreny adobat per a retrògrads oportunistes. Aquesta novel·la, que qüestiona el gènere, el llenguatge, la sexualitat i els límits de la llibertat individual, és audaç, divertida, furiosa i, sobretot, clarivident."Sí, el llibre que tots estàvem esperant. Sí, hi ha tot el que Winterson ha fet sempre tan bé. Sí, millor i molt per sobre del que us pugueu imaginar. El millor llibre de l''any." Daisy Johnson
E-bok
Svenska, 202079 kr
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Om kropparna vi lever i och om kropparna vi vill ha. Det är en regnig och kylig sommar 1816 vid Genève-sjön, där ett litet sällskap, bestående av Byron, Shelley och Mary Shelley samlas. De roar sig med spökhistorier och samtal om möjligheten att väcka en död människa till nytt liv. Till en mässa i Memphis tvåhundra år senare anländer Ry Shelley, läkare och transperson, för att studera robotars påverkan på människans hälsa. Han bekantar sig snabbt med den vackra receptionisten Claire och walesaren Ron Lord, som producerar avancerade sex-robotar, och träffar också den karismatiske Victor Stein. Jeanette Winterson har gjort ett lekfullt omtag på Mary Shelleys klassiska ”Frankenstein”. En bok om AI och flytande könsgränser.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
162 kr
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From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about love and lust in life and the afterlife.On the rain-swept shores of Lake Geneva in 1815, nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating artificial human life that will resonate through the centuries. In post-Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, a businessman on a mission to redistribute sex, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls produced for mass-market consumption. And across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead, but waiting to come back to life.Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein sees Jeanette Winterson take on identity, technology and sexuality to breathe new life into Mary Shelley?s classic horror story. Told in part through Shelley?s eyes as she dreams up her monstrous creation, Winterson launches us into a modern-day nightmare where consumerism and politics are set to bring humanity to breaking point. Spanning three centuries and multiple narratives, Frankissstein is at once a moving love story and a feminist rallying cry for our times.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 439 kr
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Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them.Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
469 kr
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Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures like androids, aliens and ghosts, this book examines the boundaries of humanness. Simultaneously, it encourages the reader both to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them.Examining imaginative texts by writers such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book looks at depictions of androids that redefine traditional humanist qualities such as hope and uniqueness. It examines alien visions that unmask the racist and heteronormative roots of speciesism. And it unpacks examples of ghosts and spirits who offer posthumous visions of having-been-human that decenter anthropocentrism. In doing so, it leaves open the potential for better relationships and futures with nonhuman animals.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
135 kr
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**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 **From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.But in this unending quest for progress, what will happen to the things that make us human: the memories, the fears, the love, the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world, what do we stand to lose?'Such a super novel' Wendy Erskine'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life' Sunday Times
E-bok
Engelska, 2022100 kr
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**Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 **From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.This is the tale of a new technology, an alternative history that unfolds over many decades. It is a fable told through a constantly shifting cast of characters, all drawn into the world of a machine that slowly alters every life it touches.But in this unending quest for progress, what will happen to the things that make us human: the memories, the fears, the love, the mortality? As we push towards a brave new world, what do we stand to lose?'Such a super novel' Wendy Erskine'A clever book...that will have you thinking about the machines in your own life' Sunday Times
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
1 500 kr
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This open access book undertakes a close reading of four contemporary novels which employ the themes of artificial intelligence and mind uploading in order to explore alternative and more constructive ways to situate ourselves in the world.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a standard CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
180 kr
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WINNER OF THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTIONA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 202249TH STREET EDITOR'S PICK FOR SEPTEMBER 2022A reclamation offemale rage and a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman.Frances is quiet and reclusive,so much so that her upstairs roommates sometimes forget she exists. Isolated inthe basement, and on the brink of graduating from university, Frances herselfstarts to question the realities of her own existence. She can’t remember therebeing a lock on the door at the top of the basement stairs—and yet, when sheturns the knob, the door won’t open. She can’t tell the difference between herchildhood memories, which bloom like flowers in the dark basement, and herdreams. Worse still, she can’t ignore the very real tapping sound nowcoming—insistently, violently—threatening to break through her bedroom wall.With the thematic considerations of Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson’s work, and in the style of Herta Müller and Daisy Johnson, Tear is both a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman and a bristling reclamation of female rage. Blurring the real and the imagined, this lyric debut novel unflinchingly engages with contemporary feminist issues and explores the detrimental effects of false narratives, gaslighting, and manipulation on young women.