Con un cierto retraso puesto que se publicó a finales de octubre del año pasado, me entero de la existencia de Beta-Life: Short Stories from an A-Life Future, una interesante antología editada por Martyn Amos y Ra Page que combina ensayos con relatos de ciencia ficción sobre vida artificial.
Estos son sus contenidos:
- Introduction: How the Future Used to Look
- The Sayer of the Sooth, Martyn Bedford
- Afterword: No More Secrets, Dr James O'Shea
- Swarm, Robin Yassin-Kassab
- Afterword: Rise of the Machines, Lenka Pitonakova
- Growing Skyscrapers, Adam Marek
- Afterword: Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow, Prof Susan Stepney
- The Loki Variations, Andy Hedgecock
- Afterword: The Moral Onboard Compass, Micah Rosenkind
- Everyone Says, Stuart Evers
- Afterword: Everyone Surveys, Prof Christian Jantzen
- A Swarm of Living Robjects Around Us, Adam Roberts
- Afterword: Sing me to Sleep, Stephen Dunne
- Luftpause, Annie Kirby
- Afterword: A Comma on the Wall, Prof Seth Bullock
- The Quivering Woods, Margaret Wilkinson
- Afterword: We Can Redirect it for You Wholesale, Dr James Snowdon
- Certain Measures, Sean O'Brien
- Afterword: Bot/Kettle, Prof Martyn Amos
- Blurred Lines, Julian Gough
- Afterword: Neuroscience and Beyond, Dr Germán Terrazas
- The Bactogarden, Sarah Schofield
- Afterword: Dream Sequence, Prof Martyn Amos
- Keynote at the European Conference on Artificial Life 2070, Zoe Lambert
- Afterword: The Unknowable Brain, Dr Andre Philippides
- The Familiar, Lucy Caldwell
- Afterword: The Feeling of What it is Like to be a Robot, Prof Alan Winfield
- Making Sandcastles, Claire Dean
- Afterword: Make/Shift, Prof Steen Rasmussen
- The Longhand Option, Dinesh Allirajah
- Afterword: Boring, Boring Robots..., Prof Francesco Mondada
- Fully Human, K.J. Orr
- Afterword: A Branching Future of Synthetic Minds, Prof Thomas S. Ray
- The War of All Against All, Joanna Quinn
- Afterword: We've Got Your Numbers, Dr James Dyke
- Bruno Wins!, Frank Cottrell-Boyce
- Afterword: The Hope Cycle, Prof Andrew Vardy
- A Brief History of Transience, Toby Litt
- Afterword: Where am I?, Prof J. Mark Bishop
