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Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World

10 best books like Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World (James D. Miller): The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, The Forge of God, House of Suns, The Antipope, The Maker of Universes, Ring, The Naked God 2: Faith, The Black Tower, Legacy, A Private Cosmos

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
AuthorRay Kurzweil
ISBN0143037889
For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step...
The Forge of God
AuthorGreg Bear
ISBN0765301075
On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up...
House of Suns
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575099127
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane — two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden...
The Antipope
AuthorRobert Rankin
'Outside the sun shines. Buses rumble towards Ealing Broadway and I'm expected to do battle with the powers of darkness. It all seems a little unfair...'

You could say it all started with the red-eyed tramp with the slimy fingers who put the wind up Neville, the part-time barman, something rotten....
The Maker of Universes
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0722134487
When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws were not those our starry galxy knows.

For that other universe was a place of tiers, world...
Ring
AuthorStephen Baxter
ISBN0061056944
Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that...
The Naked God 2: Faith
AuthorPeter F. Hamilton
ISBN0446605182
Comme tous les autres, je l'ai déja lu, en 2006, et j'en avais dit ça


Enfin, voici que se profile le dernier tome de cette fresque immense, pléthorique, voire même démesurée.
On y retrouve nos héros désormais bien connus, avec toutefois une nuance très importante : la plupart...
The Black Tower
AuthorRichard A. Lupoff
ISBN0553273469
The return of a classic shared world fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award-winning author of the Riverworld saga! Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-leveled...
Legacy
AuthorGreg Bear
ISBN1857238869
The first big thing I have to say about this book is: why is it a prequel to Eon and Eternity? The text is a lot more concerned with the world of Lamarkia than it is with the Hexamon. Even the end of the book, as everybody starts figuring out who Olmy is, could have been reworked without the idea of people from...
A Private Cosmos
AuthorPhilip José Farmer
ISBN0441679536
While the current Lord of the universe in question was busy with the events of the previous book his friend Earthman Kickaha (Trickster in the language of the local descendants of Native Americans)

was minding his own business visiting interesting places of his new bizarre world. Suddenly...
The Sword of Truth, Boxed Set III: The Pillars of Creation, Naked Empire, Chainfire
AuthorTerry Goodkind
ISBN0765356856
This Mass Market Boxed Set, is the Third Boxed Set of The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind:

The Box Set includes:
Pillars of Creation, 0-765-34074-7
Naked Empire, 0-765-34430-7
Chainfire, 0-765-34431-9

Book 7: Pillars of Creation

Sequel to the New...
Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber
AuthorJohn Gregory Betancourt
ISBN0743452402
In Roger Zelazny's Amber universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that Amber was not the first true world; rather, it was The Courts of Chaos. The saga chronicled the adventures of the royal family of Amber, culminating...
The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #2 (Wheel of Time, #4-6)
AuthorRobert Jordan
ISBN0812540115
Boxed Set contains Mass Market Paperback editions of The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, and Lord of Chaos, books four through six of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series.

The Shadow Rising
The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising...
The Second Chronicles of Amber
AuthorRoger Zelazny
ISBN0739451847
In all the universe, Amber is the only true world. All others are Shadows, playthings for Amber's royal family -- sibling rivals who vault between worlds using tarot-like Trump cards and walk the labyrinthine Pattern, which confers the power to manipulate reality. Far removed from his native land,...
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