Resultados para "Man A Machine" en Fantasía

H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells’ Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet. 

The war was over. So the living were told. The machine gods had fallen. Their thrones of crystal and gold had been shattered. Their white temples had been burned. Their false heavens had gone dark. Across the broken star-realms, mankind began to gather what remained of itself and turn toward a hidden refuge, a world beyond the reach of the machines. But in the deep places between suns, old mercies still whispered. There were worlds where the white doors still opened without hands.

Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a...

Explore three visionary science fiction classics by Philip K. Dick in War, Machines, and Future Worlds. Featuring The Variable Man, The Defenders, and Second Variety, this collection delivers intelligent machines, devastating conflict, technological uncertainty, and unsettling visions of...