Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of artificial life, provides the first authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. He surveys what has been achieved so far and looks at ...(展开全部)

Little people use BIG machines to make a GIANT birthday cake! Imagine an industrialized Lilliput. Imagine today. Imagine an enormous construction site. Imagine a birthday cake like no other. What if the people you order your next birthday cake from are tiny, and what if they build cakes the way we build buildings? Tractor-trailers and giant cranes, catwalks, and helicopters. Hu...(展开全部)

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫：1945年生，蜚声美国的短篇小说家，回忆录创作大师，“美国短篇小说复兴运动”力将，美国斯坦福大学人文学科教授。曾获欧·亨利奖、福克纳笔会奖等重要奖项。2014年，获俄勒冈州立大学颁发的斯通文学终身成就奖。

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫：1945年生，蜚声美国的短篇小说家，回忆录创作大师，“美国短篇小说复兴运动”力将，美国斯坦福大学人文学科教授。曾获欧·亨利奖、福克纳笔会奖等重要奖项。2014年，获俄勒冈州立大学颁发的斯通文学终身成就奖。

Rugby League football in an industrial northern city is a life of grime, mud, sweat and intrigue. The story follows the fortunes of the hero Arthur Machin, from the day of his inclusion in the local team to the match when he first feels age creeping up on him.

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures®, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevit...(展开全部)

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures[registered], a revolutionary computer game that allows players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems - creatures that live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevi...(展开全部)

河南人民出版社 ￥15.00 7-215-05479-9 本书是作者在临死前两年以日记的体的形式写下的自传。书中描述了他感染艾滋病病毒以后的生存状态，病毒在体内的肆虐。他的朋友比尔许诺可以救啊的命，但始终没有旅行，这种许诺带给他残酷的希望后更是残酷的失望。

In To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, critically acclaimed French writer Hervé Guibert has created an unnervingly intimate novel about an imaginative and vital young man confronting the ominous spectre of AIDS in his life. Le Nouvel Observateur calls it "a masterpiece." Written in the form of a journal, this novel offen both an unflinchingly honest examination of daily lif...(展开全部)