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Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World

David Brin, Hugo award-winning author of The Uplift War, presents a collection of short stories and essays by other science fiction luminaries. As we debate Internet privacy, revenge porn, the NSA, and Edward Snowden, cameras get smaller, faster, and more numerous. Has Orwell's Big Brother finally come to pass? Or have we become a global society of thousands of Little Brothers — watching, judging, and reporting on one another?

Partnering with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and inspired by Brin's nonfiction book The Transparent Society, noted author and futurist David Brin and scholar Stephen Potts have compiled essays and short stories from writers such as Robert J. Sawyer, James Morrow, William Gibson, Damon Knight, Jack McDevitt, and many others to examine the benefits and pitfalls of technologic transparency in all its permutations.

CONTENT

Introduction: Private Lives James Gunn

AD JUSTITIAM PER LUCEM

Mine, Yours, Ours Jack Skillingstead

Insistence of Vision David Brin

Planetbound Nancy Fulda

The Right's Tough Robert J. Sawyer

The Circuit Riders R.C. FitzPatrick

The Werewolves of Maplewood James Morrow

The Road to Oceania William Gibson

SURVEILLANCE — SOUSVEILLANCE

I See You Damon Knight

Eyejacked David Walton

FeastWar Vylar Kaftan

Your Lying Eyes Jack McDevitt

The Disaster Stack Vernor Vinge

LIES AND PRIVATE LIVES

First Presentation Aliette de Bodard

AfterShift Memories David Ramirez

Spew Neal Stephenson

Private Life in Cyberspace John Perry Barlow

BIG BROTHER, LITTLE BROTHER, VILLAGE

Elderjoy Gregory Benford

Street Life in the Emerald City Brenda Cooper

The Eyes Have It Stephen W. Potts

NO PLACE TO HIDE

Preferences Cat Rambo

Vectors Stephen Gaskell

Public Domain Scott Sigler

To See the Invisible Man Robert Silverberg

The Disconnected Ramez Naam

LOOKING BACK ... AND LOOKING UP

Eminence Karl Schroeder

Sport Kathleen Ann Goonan

Elephant on Table Bruce Sterling

A Tsunami of Light Afterword by David Brin

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 336
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780765382580
  • Genres
  • anthologies, fiction
  • Release date
  • 2017