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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Hampdenshire Wonder
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The MIT Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: QELKDDR
EAN: 9780262551410
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Zustellung: Mo, 10.08.2026
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Beschreibung
In this pioneering science-fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, a mutant wonder child’s insights prove devastating. Science fiction luminary Ted Chiang introduces The Hampdenshire Wonder. , one of the genre’s first treatments of superhuman intelligence. Victor Stott is a large-headed “supernormal” mutated in the womb by his parents’ desire to have a child born without habits. Known as “the Wonder,” Victor surveys humankind’s science, philosophy, history, literature, religion—the best that has been thought and said—and dismisses it brutally: “So elementary. inchoate. a disjunctive patchwork. ” Rejecting “the interposing and utterly false concepts of space and time,” the Wonder claims that life itself is merely “a disease of the ether. ” Unable to deal with the child’s disenchanting insights, his adult interlocutors seek to silence him. perhaps permanently.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Chiang Ted
- Beresford J. D.
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Softcover)