Interplanetary travel via the Hyperways are a norm but the technology enabling the system has far darker possibilities. A race against time and heart as the unthinkable approaches, a mass extinction event of our own creation.
If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on whi. . .
