Metamind
Book Details
Author(s)Wayne Wightman
ISBN / ASINB005PC5O18
ISBN-13978B005PC5O19
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Married into a powerful family, Jack Land's private life is an undiscovered shambles when his famous father-in-law claims to have returned from space with a revolutionary technology.
Jack looked at the row of gleaming white pods.
"I don't know what I'm looking at, sir."
"You're looking at the end of the world as we know it."
"Will it be with a bang or a whimper?"
"Both. We're gonna bang 'em and they're gonna whimper."
Across Portland, Clara Nolan, an unemployed news reporter, hassles a clerk for a handful of used memory for her computer, but when she gets home, what she sees in that remnant data changes her life, Jack Land's, and the lives of millions of others.
81,000 words.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID
Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula winner:
"[Wayne Wightman is] ...one of the names I['ve] learned to look for.... He...is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them."
John Brunner, the legend himself:
"Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I'm afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance.... As to the latter, however, now's your chance."
Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award winner:
"One of Wightman's great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from."
Elinor Mavor, editor of the legendary Amazing Stories, says of Metamind: "The concept of the impossibly complex and bizarre consequences... is delightfully evil. I'm sure lots of our... 'rulers' in Washington would snap up Hibbing's nasty invention in a heartbeat... and I would imagine they, too, would then have their minds even further scrambled."
Best Story of the Year 2011 awarded to Wayne Wightman's "Brutal Interlude" by Orson Scott Card's online magazine The Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Jack looked at the row of gleaming white pods.
"I don't know what I'm looking at, sir."
"You're looking at the end of the world as we know it."
"Will it be with a bang or a whimper?"
"Both. We're gonna bang 'em and they're gonna whimper."
Across Portland, Clara Nolan, an unemployed news reporter, hassles a clerk for a handful of used memory for her computer, but when she gets home, what she sees in that remnant data changes her life, Jack Land's, and the lives of millions of others.
81,000 words.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID
Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula winner:
"[Wayne Wightman is] ...one of the names I['ve] learned to look for.... He...is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them."
John Brunner, the legend himself:
"Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I'm afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance.... As to the latter, however, now's your chance."
Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award winner:
"One of Wightman's great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from."
Elinor Mavor, editor of the legendary Amazing Stories, says of Metamind: "The concept of the impossibly complex and bizarre consequences... is delightfully evil. I'm sure lots of our... 'rulers' in Washington would snap up Hibbing's nasty invention in a heartbeat... and I would imagine they, too, would then have their minds even further scrambled."
Best Story of the Year 2011 awarded to Wayne Wightman's "Brutal Interlude" by Orson Scott Card's online magazine The Intergalactic Medicine Show.
