{"id":30112,"date":"2018-08-02T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=30112"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T16:02:21","slug":"cheap-books-vonegut-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/02\/cheap-books-vonegut-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Books: Vonegut, Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now cheap in Kindle format.<\/p>\n

Jailbird: A Novel<\/a>\"\" by Kurt Vonnegut.<\/p>\n

Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government\u2014and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate\u2019s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know about Generation Robot: A Century of Science Fiction, Fact, and Speculation<\/a>\"\" by Terri Favro, but it looks interesting.<\/p>\n

Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation\u2014from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov\u2019s seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture robots in movies, in comic books, and on TV in the 1960s to adulthood where the possibilities of self-driving cars and virtual reality are daily conversation, Terri Favro offers a unique perspective on how our relationship with robotics and futuristic technologies has shifted over time. Peppered with pop-culture fun-facts about Superman\u2019s kryptonite, the human-machine relationships in the cult TV show Firefly, and the sexual and moral implications of the film Ex Machina, Generation Robot explores how the techno-triumphs and resulting anxieties of reality bleed into the fantasies of our collective culture.<\/p>\n

Clever and accessible, Generation Robot isn\u2019t just for the serious, scientific reader\u2014it\u2019s for everyone interested in robotics and technology since their science-fiction origins. By looking back at the future she once imagined, analyzing the plugged-in present, and speculating on what is on the horizon, Terri Favro allows readers the chance to consider what was, what is, and what could be. This is a captivating book that looks at the pop-culture of our society to explain how the world works\u2014now and tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now cheap in Kindle format. Jailbird: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government\u2014and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate\u2019s least known … Continue reading Cheap Books: Vonegut, Robots<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[1038],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cheap-books.jpg?fit=1836%2C1032&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-7PG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30113,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30112\/revisions\/30113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}