EAN: 9783319931593

SCIENCE AND FICTION INCIDENT ON SIMPAC III - ...

A few hundred years into the future  a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier
attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based
on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and using novel
biological computers  fed with data on Earth's history of successes and failures. Yet  in the
newly settled Simpac system  some unexpected and worrying anomalies begin cropping up  making
an urgent expedition to the system necessary: is it the underlying data  the computations  or
is some unknown entity tampering with the space colonization program? A race against time
ensues as the lives of four strangers begin to converge. While grounded in the social systems
aspect  the author posits that the future is likely to be characterized by more biology-based
tools than most contemporary science fiction - which most often relies entirely on
non-biological hardware in terms of advanced technologies - predicts. The result is an
entertaining and skillful blend of thriller and SF  complemented by a nontechnical appendix
describing the underlying science.

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