Harvard University professor Robert Langdon wakes up in a hospital with a head wound and no memory of the last few days. His last memory is walking on the Harvard campus, but he quickly realizes that ...
As new writers and artists began to experiment with cyberpunk ideas, new varieties of fiction emerged, sometimes addressing the criticisms leveled at the original cyberpunk stories. Lawrence Person wr ...
Dan Brown was born and raised in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States, the eldest of three children. He grew up on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father Richard G. Brown was a teache ...
Stross was born in Leeds, England. He has worked as a technical author, a freelance journalist, a programmer and a pharmacist at different times. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science.Care ...
Stross wrote of the book's production:Glasshouse appeared, almost fully formed, in my head between 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. in the afternoon of March 23, 2003, while I was at the pub nattering with a f ...
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland, England on 2 March 1960. He didn't attend university. He said in an interview, "I did science at school up to age eighteen, I stopped doing English, English lite ...
The Saga begins in 2380, the human race has had wormhole technology for over 300 years thanks to the work of Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie Isaacs, and has colonised several hundred planets across hundreds o ...
Sawyer's work frequently explores the intersection between science and religion, with rationalism frequently winning out over mysticism (see especially Far-Seer, The Terminal Experiment, Calculating G ...
The son of Lucie Ceccaldi, an Algerian-born French doctor, and René Thomas, a ski instructor and mountain guide, Houellebecq was born on the French island of Réunion. He also lived in Algeria from t ...
The Possibility of an Island (French: La Possibilité d'une ?le) is a 2005 novel by French novelist Michel Houellebecq, set within a cloning cult that resembles the real-world Ra?lians.Plot summary ...
Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion (i.e. the eventual emergence of cloning as a replacement for the sexual reproduction of the human race), the narr ...
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Atwood was the second of three children of Margaret Dorothy (née Killam), a former dietitian and nutritionist from Woodville, Nova Scotia and Carl Edmund Atwood, an e ...
The novel begins after the collapse of civilization by an event that is not immediately identified. The protagonist is Snowman, who is a post-apocalyptic hermit character. He resides near a group of w ...
In the novel's somewhat dystopian world, human personalities can be stored digitally and downloaded into new bodies, called sleeves. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store ...
Nagata's family moved to Oahu, Hawai'i when she was ten years old. She earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Hawai?i at Mānoa before moving to the island of Maui, where she st ...
