Future(s) Studies

Fiction

• 2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson
  
• A.I. Apocalypse - William Hertling
  
• Accelerando - Charles Stross
  
• Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
  
• Alpha - Catherine Asaro
  
• Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
  
• Appleseed - Masamune Shirow
  
• Ark - Stephen Baxter
  
• Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears - William Hertling
  
• Brainships - Anne McCaffrey (Series)
  
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  
• City - Clifford D. Simak
  
• Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  
• Conditioned Response - Marjorie F. Baldwin
  
• Counting Heads - David Marusek
• Cyteen - C.J. Cherryh
  
• Dad's Nuke - Marc Laidlaw
  
• Diaspora - Greg Egan
• Dreamships - Melissa Scott
  
• Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
  
• Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
  
• Enlightenment 2.0 - Ben Goertzel
  
• Everyone in Sillico - Jim Munroe
  
• Existence - David Brin
  
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Firestar - Michael Flynn
  
• Fragments of a Hologram Rose - William Gibson
  
• Friendship is Optimal - Iceman
  
• Gernsback Continuum - William Gibson
  
• Ghost in the Shell - Masamune Shirow
  
• Halting State - Charles Stross
  
• He, She and It - Marge Piercy
  
• Human Legacy Project - Christian Cantrell
  
• Ilium - Dan Simmons
  
• Just another day in utopia - Stuart Armstrong
  
• Life Artificial - David A Eubanks
  
• Looking Backward - Edward Bellamy
  
• Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
  
• Manna - Marshall Brain
  
• Market Forces - Richard Morgan
• Nekropolis - Maureen F. McHugh
  
• NetWalkers - J.S. Fancher
  
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
  
• Newton's Wake - Ken Macleod
  
• Omnitopia Dawn - Diane Duane
  
• Pandora's Star - Peter F. Hamilton (The Commonwealth Saga)
  
• Past Through Tomorrow - Robert Heinlen (Future History Series)
  
• Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
  
• Postsingular - Rudy Rucker
  
• Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge
  
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  
• Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy)
  
• Rewired: the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology - James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, eds
  
• Ring - Stephen Baxter
  
• River of Gods - Ian MacDonald
  
• Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
  
• Silently and Very Fast - Catherynne M. Valente
  
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  
• Spin - Robert Charles Wilson (the first book in the Spin Trilogy)
  
• Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner'
  
• The Crooked God Machine - Autumn Christian
  
• The Culture - Iain M Banks (Series)
  
• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
  
• The Dreaming Void - Peter F. Hamilton (Void Trilogy)
  
• The Fortunate Fall - Raphael Carter
  
• The Gentle Seduction - Marc Stiegler
  
• The Golden Globe - John Varley
  
• The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
  
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Roger Williams
  
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
  
• The NanoTech Network - Alexander Lazarevich
  
• The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  
• The Planet Pirates - Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn and Elizabeth Moon (Series)
  
• The Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster (Series)
  
• Transmetropolitan - Warren Ellis
  
• True Names - Vernor Vinge (Included in True Names ... And Other Dangers)
• Virtual Girl - Amy Thomson
  
• Watching Trees Grow (Part of a Collection of Short Stories in Manhattan In Reverse) - Peter F Hamilton
  
• Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
  
• Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1-5) - Hugh Howey
  
• Isaac Asimov - Just find his stuff and start reading
  

Non-Fiction

• 100+ - Sonia Arrison
  
• Abundance - Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
• Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization - Parag Khanna
  
• Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth - Curt Stager
  
• DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman
  
• Engines of Creation - Eric Drexler
  
• Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards - Nick Bostrom
  
• Facing The Singularity - Luke Muehlhauser
• Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts - Emily Anthes
  
• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World - David D. Friedman
  
• Future Perfect - Stephen Johnson
  
• Future Shock - Alvin Toffler
• Gรถdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
  
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas L. Friedman
  
• How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed - Ray Kurzweil
  
• IF UPLOADS COME FIRST: The crack of a future dawn - Robin Hanson
  
• Man into Superman - Robert Ettinger
  
• Massive Change - Bruce Mau
  
• Mini-FAQ on Artificial Intelligence - Michael Wilson
• Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy - Contributions from Ryan Avent, Frances Coppola, Frederick Guy, Nick Hawes, Izabella Kaminska, Tess Reidy, Edward Skidelsky, Noah Smith, E. R. Truitt, Jon Turney, Georgina Voss, Steve Randy Waldman and Alan Winfield
  
• Physics of the Future - Michio Kaku
  
• Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
  
• Race Against The Machine - Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
  
• Sex in the Future - Robin Baker
• Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
  
• Staring into the Singularity - Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Technology vs. Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine - Gerd Leonhard
  
• Tesla: Man Out of Time - Margaret Cheney
  
• The Age of Intelligent Machines - Ray Kurzweil
  
• The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
• The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future - Vivek Wadhwa, Alex Salkever
• The Fourth Transformation - Robert Scoble, Shel Israel
  
• The Future of Human Evolution - Nick Bostrom
  
• The Human Use of Human Beings - Norbert Wiener
  
• The Lights in the Tunnel - Martin Ford
  
• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century - George Friedman
  
• The Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku
  
• The Prospect of Immortality - Robert Ettinger
  
• The Shallows - Nicholas Carr
  
• The Singularity Is Near - Ray Kurzweil
• The Spike - Damien Broderick
  
• The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
• The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution - David Stipp
• The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism - Jeremy Rifkin
  
• What Technology Wants - Kevin Kelly
  
• Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge - Damien Broderick (Editor)
  
• Youniverse - Robert Ettinger
  

Scientific Journals

• Agar, N. (n.d.). Thoughts about our speciesโ€™ future: themes from Humanityโ€™s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement.
  
• Allenby, B. (2007). From human to transhuman: Technology and the reconstruction of the world. October
  
• Bainbridge, W. (n.d.). Burglarizing Nietzscheโ€™s Tomb.
  
• Bainbridge, W. (2008). Cognitive Expansion Technologies . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 19 (1), 8--16.
  
• Bainbridge, W. (2005). The transhuman heresy . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 14 (2), 91--100.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2005). A history of transhumanist thought . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 14 (1), 1--25.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2003). Human genetic enhancements: a transhumanist perspective . The Journal of Value Inquiry , 37 (4), 493--506.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2005). In defense of posthuman dignity. Bioethics , 19 (3), 202--214.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2008). Letter from Utopia. Studies in ethics, law, and technology , 2 (1), 6.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2007). Technological revolutions: ethics and policy in the dark Nanoscale , 129--152.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2005). The fable of the dragon tyrant . Journal of medical ethics , 31 (5), 273.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2005). Transhumanist values. Review of Contemporary Philosophy , 4 (1-2), 87--101.
  
• Bostrom, N. (2009). Why I want to be a posthuman when I grow up. Medical enhancement and posthumanity , 107--136.
  
• Bostrom, N., & Sandberg, A. (2009). Cognitive enhancement: Methods, ethics, regulatory challenges. Science and engineering ethics , 15 (3), 311--341.
  
• Campbell, H., & Walker, M. (2005). Religion and transhumanism: introducing a conversation . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 14, 2.
  
• Caplan, A., & Elliott, C. (2004). Is it ethical to use enhancement technologies to make us better than well? PLoS medicine , 1 (3), e52.
  
• Coenen, C. (2007). Utopian aspects of the debate on converging technologies. Assessing Societal Implications of Converging Technological Development. Berlin , 141--172.
  
• Corbett, A. (2009). Beyond Ghost in the (Human) Shell . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 20 (1).
  
• Dahl, E. (n.d.). Gendercide? A Commentary on The Economist's Report About the Wordwide War on Baby Girls.
  
• de Grey, A. (2008). Reasons and methods for promoting our duty to extend healthy life indefinitely . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 18 (1), 50--5.
  
• Dvorsky, G. (2006). All Together Now: Developmental and ethical considerations for biologically uplifting nonhumananimals . Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies , 29.
  
• Elliott, C. (2005). Adventure! Comedy! Tragedy! Robots! How bioethicists learned to stop worrying and embrace their inner cyborgs . Journal of Bioethical Inquiry , 2 (1), 18--23.
  
• Gifford, F. (2008). Ethical Issues in Enhancement Research.
  
• Gordijn, B., & Chadwick, R. (2008). Medical enhancement and posthumanity. Springer Verlag.
  
• Gunderson, M. (2008). Enhancing Human Rights: How the Use of Human Rights Treaties to Prohibit Genetic Engineering Weakens Human Rights . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 18 (1), 27--34.
  
• Gunderson, M. (2008). Genetic Engineering and the Consent of Future Persons. Genetic Engineering , 18, 1.
  
• Hauskeller, M. (2010). Nietzsche, the Overhuman and the Posthuman: A Reply to Stefan Sorgner . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 21 (1), 5--8.
  
• Hibbard, B. (2010). Nietzscheโ€™s Overhuman is an Ideal Whereas Posthumans Will be Real . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 21 (1), 9--12.
  
• Hopkins, N. (2008). A Moral Vision for Transhumanism . Journal of Evolution and Technology, 19 (1), 3--7.
  
• Hopkins, P. (n.d.). Is enhancement worthy of being a right?
  
• Hughes, J. (2009). TechnoProgressive Biopolitics and Human Enhancement. Progress in Bioethics , 163--188.
  
• Jackson, J. (2008). The Amorality of Preference: A Response to the Enemies of Enhancement. J. Evol. & Tech. , 19, 42--42.
  
• Kenyon, S. (2008). Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Robot? Journal of Evolution and Technology, 19 (1), 17--27.
  
• Lewis, B. (2003). Prozac and the post-human politics of cyborgs . Journal of Medical Humanities , 24 (1), 49--63.
  
• Lin, P., & Allhoff, F. (2008). Against Unrestricted Human Enhancement. Journal of Evolution & Technology , 18 (1), 35.
  
• McGee, E. (2009). Bioelectronics and implanted devices. Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity , 207--224.
  
• McIntosh, D. (n.d.). The Transhuman Security Dilemma.
  
• Morales, N. (2009). Psychological and ideological aspects of human cloning: A transition to a transhumanist psychology. Journal of Evolution and Technology , 20.
  
• More, M. (2010). The overhuman in the transhuman. Journal of Evolution and Technology , 21 (1), 1--4.
  
• Reynolds, C., & Ishikawa, M. (2007). Robotic thugs. 27--29.
  
• Roden, D. (2010). Deconstruction and excision in philosophical posthumanism. Journal of Evolution and Technology , 21 (1), 27--36.
  
• Rothblatt, M. (n.d.). Are we Transbemans yet?
  
• Rubin, C. (2009). What is the Good of Transhumanism? Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity, 137--156.
  
• Scott, K. (2009). Cheating Darwin: The Genetic and Ethical Implications of Vanity and Cosmetic Plastic Surgery. Journal of Evolution and Technology , 20 (2), 1--8.
  
• Smith, K. (2005). Saving humanity?: Counter-arguing posthuman enhancement . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 14 (1), 44.
  
• Stambler, I. (2010). Life extensionโ€”a conservative enterprise? Some fin-de-siecle and early twentieth century precursors of transhumanism . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 21 (1), 13--26.
  
• Steinhart, E. (2008). Teilhard de Chardin and transhumanism . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 20 (1), 1--22.
  
• Verdoux, P. (2010). Risk Mysterianism and Cognitive Boosters . Journal of Futures Studies , 15 (1), 1--19.
  
• Verdoux, P. (2009). Transhumanism, progress and the future . Journal of evolution and technology , 20 (2), 49--69.
  
• Walker, M. (2008). Cognitive enhancement and the identity objection . Journal of Evolution and Technology , 18 (1), 108--115.
  
• Wiesing, U. (2009). The History of Medical Enhancement: From Restitutio ad Integrum to Transformatio ad Optimum? Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity , 9--24.
  

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