Andrés Vaccari

Even Animals Are Machines (eBook, ePUB)

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1649, North Sea. The great philosopher René Descartes carries a heavy heart and a target on his back. Sick with pneumonia, pursued by powerful enemies, he flees by ship to Sweden and a new life. His companion: a sentient android replica of Francine, his beloved, dead daughter.

But the ship's captain has other plans. Accusing Descartes of sorcery, he tosses the droid overboard, plunging Francine into a bizarre afterlife: a machine graveyard ruled by malignant necromancers.

There, she hacks the dying philosopher's mind, glimpsing the birth of A.I. in a timestream parallel to our own.

'Even Animals Are Machines is luminous, melancholy and charged with real soul.'
Christopher Brown, author of Tropic of Kansas

'A work of genuinely original and literary science fiction.'
D. Harlan Wilson, author of Outré

'A marvellous blend of historiography and provocative allegory.'
Paul McAuley, author of Fairyland

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wanton Sun
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780645654356
• Artikelnr.: 72393465

Autorenporträt

Andrés Vaccari is the author of Robotomy (Saturn Press, 1997), Smoky: Relato de Muerte, Exilio y terror (Borde Perdido, 2022), El Enjambre y las Sombras (EMB, 2018, Regional Narrative Award), Hypercapitalism and Other Tales of Planetary Madness (Wanton Sun 2023) and Suicidados (Diotima 2024). His short stories have been published in Spanish and English, and he's the author of two stage plays and a multimedia performance piece, Nothing Here But Shadows (2019-2024). Andrés obtained his Doctorate in Philosophy from Macquarie University with a thesis on Descartes and the links between posthumanism and mechanistic biology. He's worked for universities in Australia and Argentina as a researcher and lecturer, and his academic papers have appeared in many international journals and books. Andrés is also an accomplished musician and the leader of the industrial-gothic collective Machinic Demiurge.