After The Fall (Eclipse Phase) By Jaym Gates ebook 0984583599 9780984583591 Horror After The Fall (Eclipse Phase) In a world of transhuman survival and horror, technology allows the re shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone. Other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien. After the Fall is the first anthology from Posthuman Studios, set in the world of Eclipse Phase, their award winning roleplaying game. The anthology will be a mix of old and new fiction, including stories by Eclipse Phase favorites—Nathaniel Dean, Jack Graham, Steve Mohan, and Rob Boyle and Davidson Cole. New fiction will feature science fiction rising stars Ken Liu, Madeline Ashby, Fran Wilde, Karin Lowachee, Wesley Schneider, and Andrew Penn Romine. After the Fall Table of Contents Eclipse PhaseA Primer on Transhuman Survival White Hempen Sleeves — Ken LiuHow far will you go to experience the ultimate transhuman taboo? With enough wealth, longevity, and power, anything is possible, but the cost might be than you can imagine. Spiritus Ex Orcinus — Tiffany TrentAfter one too many rebellions, a cetacean uplift has been resleeved into human form and enslaved to mind a pharmas deep sea factories. She is on the verge of giving up hope when a legend steps out of the shadows and offers her a once in a universe opportunity: to find the last living Earth whale. It is everything she has dreamed of, but Earth is nothing like what it was, and dreams are sometimes deadly. Into the White — Jack GrahamA murder most foul—and mysterious—in the tunnels of an abandoned Titan project. A planet full of suspects. A Firewall agent desperate for answers. But Titan technology isn’t without its own dangers. The Thousandth Cycle — Fran WildeA wager between corporations, an ancient fable, and a secret mission collide, with two sisters caught square in the middle. Interference — Nathaniel Dean with Davidson ColeTranshumanity offers many new fields and frontiers of psychological research. Those willing to risk it all may find answers they never wanted. The Fukuda Cube — Kim MayA routine salvage mission uncovers a love lost before the Fall, but it has been a long time, and people change. But missions have no mercy on lost loves. Lack — Rob Boyle Davidson ColeA recovery mission to the wreckage of Earth brings the team face to face with the horrors of what was left behind, and the price some interests are willing to pay for knowledge. Nostalgia — Georgina KamsikaNot everyone clings to the outer frontiers of technology and transhumanism. Unlikely allies come together to protect the future from the past. Nostrums — Jack GrahamIllegal uplift harvesting for traditional medicines, Yakuza, forgotten cults, and a very strange medicine keep Firewall agents and law enforcement chasing shadows. Prix Fixe — Andrew Penn RomineSome people will do anything for a good meal. An Infinite Horizon — Steve MohanA world has blipped out of communication, and a crack team has been dispatched to find out why. The beautiful planet that awaits them gives no hint of the horror it hides. Stray Thoughts — Wes SchneiderA collective has misplaced one of their members, and turn to a PI to recover him. What looks like a straightforward job quickly devolves into a messy question of free will, belonging, and legality. Melt — Rob Boyle Davidson ColeIndentured slaves, the lowliest forms of life, pawns of the wealthy Venusian politicians high above, sustained only by their dreams of freedom. Is there anything for them beyond the mines, or are they doomed to be a cheap PR tool for their masters? Thieving Magpie — Madeline AshbyEverything, everyone, is a tool, if you know how to use it. Some are merely a little slower to figure out what they’re being used for. A Resleeving of Love — Karin LowacheeIdealism and cynicism clash head to head in an illegal operation. After the fall difficulty levels P Lovecraft On the other hand the rules are a mess that actively oppose the fiction of the game And on the third augmented cyborg hand it doesn t do a good job of giving people comprehensible and cool things to explore and do or the sense that there s much life in transhuman culture This collection does a little in that direction but mostly just hits on the familiar tropes of action and horror Firewall team investigates weird events finds mutilated bodies there s a shootout reboot from backups and try again On the plus side there s a strong editorial vision that maintains consistency with the setting throughout The flip side of that is that the stories wind up feeling and sounding very similar and I felt that a few could have been trimmed. Epub after the fall of rome The two stories that stood out were Prix Fixe by Andrew Penn Romine where wealthy gourmet follows a celebrity chef to a hidden asteroid restaurant to discover that the next leap in cuisine is than she bargained for and Stray Thoughts by F Wesley Schneider which dials down the hypertech to focus on a noir story about a Venusian private eye and her son White Hempen Sleeves by Ken Liu leads the collection and puts the rest of the standard tales to shame Fans of Eclipse Phase will like this collection sci fi fans in general less so 9780984583591 This book is an anthology of 15 stories set in the world of Eclipse Phase a pen and paper style RPG Before you get to the first story there is a brief overview of the setting It s a bit of an info dump but you can always come back to it later It s useful information that helps frame the world though but if you re already familiar with the game you can skip ahead without missing anything. After the fall best weapons With 15 different stories authors there is easily something for everyone in this book There were a few that jumped out at me as instant favourites that I ll definitely read again Spiritus Ex Orcinus was a great story for getting a sense of what it s like to be an uplift especially an uplift in a humanoid body I m going to be recommending this story to one of my players. Book after fallen angels Interference is a story that is in one of the game books and I m glad to see it reprinted here I liked the story when I first read it and still do It s an interesting look at what we ll do to for a cause and what the human mind can handle in this transhuman future Stray Thoughts was a story I really enjoyed The lead protagonist is a kick ass lady detective and damn I wish there was a whole book of her The characters in this were really interesting and I cried near the end Yep on the bus like usual Lack is another story that was in one of the game books in this case the core book When I first read this story it left me with a lot of questions about the world and what had happened and why in the Fall It was a great introduction piece for the game Muses and Resleeving are shown in ways that make it easy to understand how these things are a part of regular life Nostrums was an adventure and I could almost hear it being narrated by a pulp narrator Interesting characters of many species and a great example of how different parts of Firewall work together or don t. After the fall book summary And that s just a small portion of the stories in this book I left it feeling like I wanted to read to write some myself or to kick my gaming group in the butt so we could finally get some play of Eclipse Phase in Well all of the above really I hope this book does well enough that they ll consider doing another And soon 9780984583591 A very solid collection of stories set in the transhumanist Eclipse Phase setting It s a science fiction setting where humans can digitize their minds and make bodies to order but haven t been able to solve all their problems. Music after the fall pdf One of the problems that comes up with these collections sometimes is that they re too dependent on the original game books for the role playing game That is not the case here There s a few stories where you ll miss a reference or two but I wouldn t say any of them are ruined by not having read the EP corebook cover to cover. After the fall best weapons That said the story Lack would be a great place to start if you hadn t read any other EP material It opened the first corebook and it s still a great story that introduces some of the key aspects of the setting in an entertaining way. After the fall book pdf I d rather not highlight each story individually but I found most of the stories to be enjoyable or excellent There were a few that didn t work so well for me but they mostly just didn t quite come together for what they were trying to do. After the fall mods Overall I enjoyed it a lot both in the concept for the collection and in the variety of stories Highly recommended for Eclipse Phase fans regular recommended for fans of transhumanist sci fi like the Altered Carbon novels 9780984583591 7 in my 20 in 2020 cyberpunk challenge I m entirely biased since I m friends with many of the people involved so I ll just say that this is an excellent anthology of deep space cyberpunk stories 9780984583591 It s an anthology so I guess it shouldn t be a surprise that it s a mix Mostly good White Hempen Sleeves Nostrums Stray Thoughts Prix Fixe Lack some fine The Fukuda Cube An Infinite Horizon Melt some tedious Thieving Magpie A Resleeving of Love 9780984583591 
I adored the first story in the book but realized that I might not be familiar enough with the Eclipse Phase tabletop game to fully appreciate the rest I m not unfamiliar with transhumanism so I was able to grasp that side of things but game specific references went right over my head and made things confusing 9780984583591 When I get the five star tinglies for a book it s usually because it has set my mind on fire with curiosity and ideas for what is going on in the rest of the world That s one of the reasons I love tabletop roleplaying games so much Their entire purpose is to inspire people to tell their own stories within them What roleplaying games aren t good at is being a book I want to read cover to cover which is a shame because many of them start with a short story I love seeing and hearing about what the setting inspired in other people And maybe that s why I love short fiction so much in general I like to know what s happening in other people s heads I get joy and delight out of being surprised at the turns another person s thoughts took that my own did not. After the fall summary Eclipse Phase After The Fall is part collection of the appetizer stories from their other books and part original stories inspired by the setting It isn t perfect there are some choices I m not sure I would have made and some that as a fan of the game I can t judge impartially as to their utility to the general science fiction fan However I enjoyed the collection immensely and hope that scifi fans give it a try even if they re not RPGers or familiar with the Eclipse Phase setting Even skipping the setting introduction to someone who has read transhumanist stories before Altered Carbon The Expanse series the Uplift War series anything by Peter F Hamilton anything by Alastair Reynolds a lot of Kim Stanley Robinson Ancillary Justice Lord of Light the Old Man s War series etc the terms can be easily defined in context and jumping into the deep end will be rewarding. Epub after the fall of rome Here s my thoughts on a few of the stories White Hempen Sleeves Ken LiuA very good story that deals with voyeurism depravity boredom intimacy and the dark depths some people will go to know their own limits. After the fall characters Spiritus Ex Orcinus Tiffany TrentI swear it s not just that I m a sucker for space whales but I really liked this story One of the best things about a setting where we have simultaneously uplifted other species and can change bodies is that we can imagine what it must be like to be an outsider in a human body which reciprocally makes us examine what it must be like to be in for example a whale body It s these kinds of things that are especially suited for exploration in a short story rather than in actually roleplaying On the fly and in a group is not the time for an internal monologue on why fingers feel weird which is actually the kind of navelgazing roleplay I like to do but I understand why other people don t want to sit around while I have in character philosophical discussions with other characters. After the fall best weapons Into the White Jack GrahamThe Big Dumb Object and xenoarchaeology are always fun places to go with science fiction I loved the ice moon TITAN supercomputer remnant It was creepy and wondrous at the same time. Book after the fall of five The Thousandth Cycle Fran WildeWhile I didn t like this story as a whole I appreciated some of its ideas The feeling I got while reading it was of digital processes being represented by metaphors that don t necessarily tell me what s going on It felt like 80s movie hacking brought into the 22nd century. After the fall horror Prix Fixe Andrew Penn RomineThis story was so good but I wanted I wanted it to linger on the horror pulling it like taffy until I wasn t sure if I was hungry or nauseous I wanted to really explore the ethics of being voluntarily canibalized Most of all I wanted to really feel how the character felt at the idea of copies of herself being abandoned in that hab of horrors But none of those things happened and the story was just good but disappointingly so for not being great. After the fall book pdf Thieving Magpie Madeline AshbyI really enjoyed a story from a TITAN s perspective This is the kind of thing I want out of a collection like this Stories that aren t practical to tell inside an RPG session 9780984583591 Un recueil d une quinzaine de nouvelles dans l univers de science fiction transhumaniste du jeu de r les Eclipse Phase. Book after the fallen Comme souvent dans ce genre de recueil il y a des textes tr s r ussis et d autres moins m morables La balance s quilibre un niveau plut t moyen en raison de quelques nouvelles que j ai pass assez vite apr s de premi res pages ennuyantes 9780984583591 I bought this on the strength of Jaym Gates name on the cover I had no idea these stories were tie ins to a PnP RPG. Kindle mode d'emploi I started to get a serious this feels like a game vibe after the first couple of stories It had a bit of the feel of Mass Effect or the Call of Duty space war games but I couldn t quite put my finger on it Once they introduced psi powers out of the blue I was likeOh right Video game logic. Kindle after the fall review A couple of the stories are okay a couple are just complete messes and a couple left me scratching my head wondering what the heck is going on All of these concepts of transhumanism and personality uploading and nanotech and uplifted animals have been used before but the mix here just felt off I think because the idea is not fully realized or at least not completely communicated. After the fall fantasy Some of the tales like Ken Liu s and Karin Lowachee s feel like translations of translations I suspect the authors didn t fully comprehend the concept and the resultant mash up with their style of writing didn t fit. Epub after the fall of rome The stories which were less fanciful and basically just riffing on classic genre tropes the bounty hunter the private eye the disillusioned soldier were enjoyable but they still failed to utilize the full extent of the concept The stories which did fully embrace the potential of the idea such as Prix Fixe which is about a chef who is illegally downloading personalities into human bodies and then using the nanotechnology to cook them from the inside as a form of cannibalism to entertain jaded rich immortals aren t backed up by the other stories The adventure tales are fine but one gets the feeling that they are jumping around in time because the core concepts are fully developed in some than they are in others However that feeling isn t supported by the text These stories apparently occur within the same basic timeframe but they don t feel that way at all. After the fall astuce The basic idea is that we can record our brains and upload them to computers then download them into different types of bodies Either clones of our original selves or robots or generic bodies It s not clear where the generic bodies come from or why they re blank The implication is that they used to be people who somehow lost the right to exist but it s never explored in any of the stories they re basically throwaway bodies And for all the talk of rich versus poor haves versus have nots it is completely opaque as to how the economy works Earth has been destroyed and humans are scattered throughout the solar system yet the old type of economic system is preserved Just feels poorly thought out. After the fall difficulty levels It seems to me that one of the biggest problems with this technology is hacking They touch on it a couple of times but imagine a corporation or country doing massive hacks of human beings as they re being uploaded If they can produce clones and robots at will what s to stop a rich megalomaniac from creating an army of mind controlled slaves Or as in the movie Oblivion an army comprised of multiple copies of the same guy who has no idea he s being manipulated There s no reason they even have to be the same person just download the same mind into a thousand different people Heck just have a villain download himself or herself into a thousand bodies That would take conspiracies and collusions to a whole new level The whole idea of free will is also touched on here and there but again it feels like a missed opportunity. After the fall psvr2 Ultimately I was just meh on the whole thing This universe needs either constraints on it or they need to just go full throttle with all the endless possibilities 9780984583591 A collection of sf short stories set in the Eclipse Phase universe in which you can save your mind and implant it into any kind of body you d likeif you have enough money at least Like most short story collections this is a bit of a mixed bag in terms of tone and quality I love the questions of what aspects of identity consciousness or physical form matter what value judgments are in play when people are almost functionally immortal and all the casual gender bending and mind melding. After the fall cheats Ken Liu White Hempen Sleeves In the luxuriant society of Casey one person has made their wealth through the ultimate taboo creating an identical copy of a person s mind putting it into lethal danger and then allowing the original person to experience their own death They reveal this secret business to their newfound lover only to be betrayed I love stories about consciousness and clones about who gets to be considered real or original or human and this story does a good job of playing with those questions The descriptions are poetic but not so much that they hindered the imagination. After the fallh hair Tiffany Trent Spiritus Ex Orcinus All Rani wants to do is get back into a whale body and have a child But as an indentured servant with a rebellious reputation Rani has little chance of ever achieving their dream Then they find a whale tooth from old long gone Earth and go on a mission to find the last whale of the original species I felt the dissonance disgust and dysmorphia the narrator felt toward the human body they were trapped in and the ending is a unexpected but in retrospect totally believable shocking twist No one s form or mind is truly their own Jack Graham Into the White. After the fall horror update Inspector Nordqvist investigates a murder far below the surface of Iapetus The use of Eclipse Phase concepts and jargon was pretty skillfully naturally incorporated but the new terms were so pervasive that it was a little much for someone like me who doesn t already know this stuff I liked the suspense and paranoia in the dark icy tunnels. After the fall book cover Fran Wilde The Thousandth Cycle Hanni sells her emotions and sensations to an AI But then the AI loses a bet and Hanni must keep an even larger and complex AI s attention for a thousand cycles This is trippy and kinky the way machine intelligences can be kinky and I liked it a lot. After the fall kindle review Nathaniel Dean with Davidson Cole Interference A professor is in town for a conference but something unsettling is going onI like the way this story deals with academia and ambition in a strange sf universe the conference call between all the professors was the perfect combo of familiar and fantastical and the lies we tell ourselves to mask our darker impulses. After the fall characters Kim May The Fukuda Cube An AI investigates a ship transporting the minds of Earth refugees I liked the ruminations on being un bodied but otherwise thought this was workmanlike prose at best. When should i replace my kindle Rob Boyle Davidson Cole Lack Sava and a team of Firewall agents search the Kilimanjaro space elevator for a long dead courier As they walk through halls full of corpses left behind by a past war each of them has to make a choice whether to cut and run leaving their latest experiences behind For some forgetting the last few days would be a mercy For others losing time is a horror. Kindle when the night falls Georgina Kamsika Nostalgia Charumati infiltrated a rich household in order to get access to their vault When another faction makes a move on the vault she has to choose between the mission and the baby she s been pretending to care for I liked the way the old Earth artifacts are viewed by hackers like Charumati and the way her opinion of an old school bodyguard changes as the story progresses. After the fall activities free Jack Graham Nostrums Jake Carter looks for Bobdog finds a whole mess of a conspiracy to steal body parts from uplifted primates and then an even bigger plot that might actually be too much to handle This has some cool set pieces but I d have liked personality from the characters. Kindle when the night falls Andrew Penn Romine Prix Fixe Jule Cortez is on a mission to find a long lost metacelebrity chef She s been a fan of his since she was a child which we re told in a delightful little aside that reminds me of past children s yearning for an EZBake oven but also just how different things are in a post scarcity future Batuk s recipes were copied widely Anyone with a half way decent fabber could churn out his famous enoki stuffed polenta shells or wet print his divine poitrine de porc souffles with jus rouge. After the fall book activities Growing up Jule had fabbed whole feasts from his recipes using her EZPrint from Prosperity Group Batuk s chief sponsor She had all the XPs too But as we all expect the reclusive chef is up to no good I liked the plot here which is both creepy and kinda decadently enticing and the writing does a great job of conveying futuristic haute cuisine. Cheats for after the fall Stephen Mohan Jr An Infinite Horizon Iftikhar is part of a team sent to investigate a research station that s gone dark One by one team members are picked offbut by who Or what I liked this until the last few lines which felt a bit trite The young man was glad for Firewall s existence Transhumanity was at the center of a strange political struggle whose rules it couldn t begin to even guess There would be great danger. Does the fall have an ending F Wesley Schneider Stray Thoughts A PI and her nearly adult kid take a job to track down a menton who s cut contact with his hyper mind Finding Vine takes on a personal edge than either expected I really liked this particularly because the characters immediately intrigued me I d love to read about Wehilani Lonoehu and her body switching family. After the fall discord Karin Lowachee A Resleeving of Love A spy transfers his consciousness into a common prostitute but finds out to his horror that he s now part of a being he can t really control 9780984583591
In a world of transhuman survival and horror technology allows the re shaping of bodies and minds but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone Other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall dangers both familiar and alien After the Fall is the first anthology from Posthuman Studios set in the world of Eclipse Phase their award winning roleplaying game The anthology will be a mix of old and new fiction including stories by Eclipse Phase favorites Nathaniel Dean Jack Graham Steve Mohan and Rob Boyle and Davidson Cole New fiction will feature science fiction rising stars Ken Liu Madeline Ashby Fran Wilde Karin Lowachee Wesley Schneider and Andrew Penn Romine After the Fall Table of Contents Eclipse PhaseA Primer on Transhuman Survival White Hempen Sleeves Ken LiuHow far will you go to experience the ultimate transhuman taboo With enough wealth longevity and power anything is possible but the cost might be than you can imagine Spiritus Ex Orcinus Tiffany TrentAfter one too many rebellions a cetacean uplift has been resleeved into human form and enslaved to mind a pharma s deep sea factories She is on the verge of giving up hope when a legend steps out of the shadows and offers her a once in a universe opportunity to find the last living Earth whale It is everything she has dreamed of but Earth is nothing like what it was and dreams are sometimes deadly Into the White Jack GrahamA murder most foul and mysterious in the tunnels of an abandoned Titan project A planet full of suspects A Firewall agent desperate for answers But Titan technology isn t without its own dangers The Thousandth Cycle Fran WildeA wager between corporations an ancient fable and a secret mission collide with two sisters caught square in the middle Interference Nathaniel Dean with Davidson ColeTranshumanity offers many new fields and frontiers of psychological research Those willing to risk it all may find answers they never wanted The Fukuda Cube Kim MayA routine salvage mission uncovers a love lost before the Fall but it has been a long time and people change But missions have no mercy on lost loves Lack Rob Boyle Davidson ColeA recovery mission to the wreckage of Earth brings the team face to face with the horrors of what was left behind and the price some interests are willing to pay for knowledge Nostalgia Georgina KamsikaNot everyone clings to the outer frontiers of technology and transhumanism Unlikely allies come together to protect the future from the past Nostrums Jack GrahamIllegal uplift harvesting for traditional medicines Yakuza forgotten cults and a very strange medicine keep Firewall agents and law enforcement chasing shadows Prix Fixe Andrew Penn RomineSome people will do anything for a good meal An Infinite Horizon Steve MohanA world has blipped out of communication and a crack team has been dispatched to find out why The beautiful planet that awaits them gives no hint of the horror it hides Stray Thoughts Wes SchneiderA collective has misplaced one of their members and turn to a PI to recover him What looks like a straightforward job quickly devolves into a messy question of free will belonging and legality Melt Rob Boyle Davidson ColeIndentured slaves the lowliest forms of life pawns of the wealthy Venusian politicians high above sustained only by their dreams of freedom Is there anything for them beyond the mines or are they doomed to be a cheap PR tool for their masters Thieving Magpie Madeline AshbyEverything everyone is a tool if you know how to use it Some are merely a little slower to figure out what they re being used for A Resleeving of Love Karin LowacheeIdealism and cynicism clash head to head in an illegal operation After The Fall Eclipse Phase.:From a group of RPG authors and contemporary sci fi standouts Ken Liu Madeline Ashby Karin Lowachee comes a solid collection of stories set in the dark cosmos of Eclipse Phase: Science fiction after the fally I ve got mixed feelings on Eclipse Phase the RPG On the one hand the setting a cool mashup of my man Bruce Sterling s Schismatrix The Singularity and H. After the fall activities free Iftikhar Quraini looked up past the trees past the beach even past the broad ocean his gaze settling finally on an infinite horizon: Kindle mode d'emploi Rob Boyle and Davidson Cole Melt Two mining corporations on Venus battle for supremacy only realizing at the last moment that someone else is pulling their strings. Cheats for after the fall Madeleine Ashby Thieving Magpie Possibly my favorite of the collection SO CREEPY[1]
I adored the first story in the book but realized that I might not be familiar enough with the Eclipse Phase tabletop game to fully appreciate the rest I m not unfamiliar with transhumanism so I was able to grasp that side of things but game specific references went right over my head and made things confusing 9780984583591 When I get the five star tinglies for a book it s usually because it has set my mind on fire with curiosity and ideas for what is going on in the rest of the world That s one of the reasons I love tabletop roleplaying games so much Their entire purpose is to inspire people to tell their own stories within them What roleplaying games aren t good at is being a book I want to read cover to cover which is a shame because many of them start with a short story I love seeing and hearing about what the setting inspired in other people And maybe that s why I love short fiction so much in general I like to know what s happening in other people s heads I get joy and delight out of being surprised at the turns another person s thoughts took that my own did not. After the fall summary Eclipse Phase After The Fall is part collection of the appetizer stories from their other books and part original stories inspired by the setting It isn t perfect there are some choices I m not sure I would have made and some that as a fan of the game I can t judge impartially as to their utility to the general science fiction fan However I enjoyed the collection immensely and hope that scifi fans give it a try even if they re not RPGers or familiar with the Eclipse Phase setting Even skipping the setting introduction to someone who has read transhumanist stories before Altered Carbon The Expanse series the Uplift War series anything by Peter F Hamilton anything by Alastair Reynolds a lot of Kim Stanley Robinson Ancillary Justice Lord of Light the Old Man s War series etc the terms can be easily defined in context and jumping into the deep end will be rewarding. Epub after the fall of rome Here s my thoughts on a few of the stories White Hempen Sleeves Ken LiuA very good story that deals with voyeurism depravity boredom intimacy and the dark depths some people will go to know their own limits. After the fall characters Spiritus Ex Orcinus Tiffany TrentI swear it s not just that I m a sucker for space whales but I really liked this story One of the best things about a setting where we have simultaneously uplifted other species and can change bodies is that we can imagine what it must be like to be an outsider in a human body which reciprocally makes us examine what it must be like to be in for example a whale body It s these kinds of things that are especially suited for exploration in a short story rather than in actually roleplaying On the fly and in a group is not the time for an internal monologue on why fingers feel weird which is actually the kind of navelgazing roleplay I like to do but I understand why other people don t want to sit around while I have in character philosophical discussions with other characters. After the fall best weapons Into the White Jack GrahamThe Big Dumb Object and xenoarchaeology are always fun places to go with science fiction I loved the ice moon TITAN supercomputer remnant It was creepy and wondrous at the same time. Book after the fall of five The Thousandth Cycle Fran WildeWhile I didn t like this story as a whole I appreciated some of its ideas The feeling I got while reading it was of digital processes being represented by metaphors that don t necessarily tell me what s going on It felt like 80s movie hacking brought into the 22nd century. After the fall horror Prix Fixe Andrew Penn RomineThis story was so good but I wanted I wanted it to linger on the horror pulling it like taffy until I wasn t sure if I was hungry or nauseous I wanted to really explore the ethics of being voluntarily canibalized Most of all I wanted to really feel how the character felt at the idea of copies of herself being abandoned in that hab of horrors But none of those things happened and the story was just good but disappointingly so for not being great. After the fall book pdf Thieving Magpie Madeline AshbyI really enjoyed a story from a TITAN s perspective This is the kind of thing I want out of a collection like this Stories that aren t practical to tell inside an RPG session 9780984583591 Un recueil d une quinzaine de nouvelles dans l univers de science fiction transhumaniste du jeu de r les Eclipse Phase. Book after the fallen Comme souvent dans ce genre de recueil il y a des textes tr s r ussis et d autres moins m morables La balance s quilibre un niveau plut t moyen en raison de quelques nouvelles que j ai pass assez vite apr s de premi res pages ennuyantes 9780984583591 I bought this on the strength of Jaym Gates name on the cover I had no idea these stories were tie ins to a PnP RPG. Kindle mode d'emploi I started to get a serious this feels like a game vibe after the first couple of stories It had a bit of the feel of Mass Effect or the Call of Duty space war games but I couldn t quite put my finger on it Once they introduced psi powers out of the blue I was likeOh right Video game logic. Kindle after the fall review A couple of the stories are okay a couple are just complete messes and a couple left me scratching my head wondering what the heck is going on All of these concepts of transhumanism and personality uploading and nanotech and uplifted animals have been used before but the mix here just felt off I think because the idea is not fully realized or at least not completely communicated. After the fall fantasy Some of the tales like Ken Liu s and Karin Lowachee s feel like translations of translations I suspect the authors didn t fully comprehend the concept and the resultant mash up with their style of writing didn t fit. Epub after the fall of rome The stories which were less fanciful and basically just riffing on classic genre tropes the bounty hunter the private eye the disillusioned soldier were enjoyable but they still failed to utilize the full extent of the concept The stories which did fully embrace the potential of the idea such as Prix Fixe which is about a chef who is illegally downloading personalities into human bodies and then using the nanotechnology to cook them from the inside as a form of cannibalism to entertain jaded rich immortals aren t backed up by the other stories The adventure tales are fine but one gets the feeling that they are jumping around in time because the core concepts are fully developed in some than they are in others However that feeling isn t supported by the text These stories apparently occur within the same basic timeframe but they don t feel that way at all. After the fall astuce The basic idea is that we can record our brains and upload them to computers then download them into different types of bodies Either clones of our original selves or robots or generic bodies It s not clear where the generic bodies come from or why they re blank The implication is that they used to be people who somehow lost the right to exist but it s never explored in any of the stories they re basically throwaway bodies And for all the talk of rich versus poor haves versus have nots it is completely opaque as to how the economy works Earth has been destroyed and humans are scattered throughout the solar system yet the old type of economic system is preserved Just feels poorly thought out. After the fall difficulty levels It seems to me that one of the biggest problems with this technology is hacking They touch on it a couple of times but imagine a corporation or country doing massive hacks of human beings as they re being uploaded If they can produce clones and robots at will what s to stop a rich megalomaniac from creating an army of mind controlled slaves Or as in the movie Oblivion an army comprised of multiple copies of the same guy who has no idea he s being manipulated There s no reason they even have to be the same person just download the same mind into a thousand different people Heck just have a villain download himself or herself into a thousand bodies That would take conspiracies and collusions to a whole new level The whole idea of free will is also touched on here and there but again it feels like a missed opportunity. After the fall psvr2 Ultimately I was just meh on the whole thing This universe needs either constraints on it or they need to just go full throttle with all the endless possibilities 9780984583591 A collection of sf short stories set in the Eclipse Phase universe in which you can save your mind and implant it into any kind of body you d likeif you have enough money at least Like most short story collections this is a bit of a mixed bag in terms of tone and quality I love the questions of what aspects of identity consciousness or physical form matter what value judgments are in play when people are almost functionally immortal and all the casual gender bending and mind melding. After the fall cheats Ken Liu White Hempen Sleeves In the luxuriant society of Casey one person has made their wealth through the ultimate taboo creating an identical copy of a person s mind putting it into lethal danger and then allowing the original person to experience their own death They reveal this secret business to their newfound lover only to be betrayed I love stories about consciousness and clones about who gets to be considered real or original or human and this story does a good job of playing with those questions The descriptions are poetic but not so much that they hindered the imagination. After the fallh hair Tiffany Trent Spiritus Ex Orcinus All Rani wants to do is get back into a whale body and have a child But as an indentured servant with a rebellious reputation Rani has little chance of ever achieving their dream Then they find a whale tooth from old long gone Earth and go on a mission to find the last whale of the original species I felt the dissonance disgust and dysmorphia the narrator felt toward the human body they were trapped in and the ending is a unexpected but in retrospect totally believable shocking twist No one s form or mind is truly their own Jack Graham Into the White. After the fall horror update Inspector Nordqvist investigates a murder far below the surface of Iapetus The use of Eclipse Phase concepts and jargon was pretty skillfully naturally incorporated but the new terms were so pervasive that it was a little much for someone like me who doesn t already know this stuff I liked the suspense and paranoia in the dark icy tunnels. After the fall book cover Fran Wilde The Thousandth Cycle Hanni sells her emotions and sensations to an AI But then the AI loses a bet and Hanni must keep an even larger and complex AI s attention for a thousand cycles This is trippy and kinky the way machine intelligences can be kinky and I liked it a lot. After the fall kindle review Nathaniel Dean with Davidson Cole Interference A professor is in town for a conference but something unsettling is going onI like the way this story deals with academia and ambition in a strange sf universe the conference call between all the professors was the perfect combo of familiar and fantastical and the lies we tell ourselves to mask our darker impulses. After the fall characters Kim May The Fukuda Cube An AI investigates a ship transporting the minds of Earth refugees I liked the ruminations on being un bodied but otherwise thought this was workmanlike prose at best. When should i replace my kindle Rob Boyle Davidson Cole Lack Sava and a team of Firewall agents search the Kilimanjaro space elevator for a long dead courier As they walk through halls full of corpses left behind by a past war each of them has to make a choice whether to cut and run leaving their latest experiences behind For some forgetting the last few days would be a mercy For others losing time is a horror. Kindle when the night falls Georgina Kamsika Nostalgia Charumati infiltrated a rich household in order to get access to their vault When another faction makes a move on the vault she has to choose between the mission and the baby she s been pretending to care for I liked the way the old Earth artifacts are viewed by hackers like Charumati and the way her opinion of an old school bodyguard changes as the story progresses. After the fall activities free Jack Graham Nostrums Jake Carter looks for Bobdog finds a whole mess of a conspiracy to steal body parts from uplifted primates and then an even bigger plot that might actually be too much to handle This has some cool set pieces but I d have liked personality from the characters. Kindle when the night falls Andrew Penn Romine Prix Fixe Jule Cortez is on a mission to find a long lost metacelebrity chef She s been a fan of his since she was a child which we re told in a delightful little aside that reminds me of past children s yearning for an EZBake oven but also just how different things are in a post scarcity future Batuk s recipes were copied widely Anyone with a half way decent fabber could churn out his famous enoki stuffed polenta shells or wet print his divine poitrine de porc souffles with jus rouge. After the fall book activities Growing up Jule had fabbed whole feasts from his recipes using her EZPrint from Prosperity Group Batuk s chief sponsor She had all the XPs too But as we all expect the reclusive chef is up to no good I liked the plot here which is both creepy and kinda decadently enticing and the writing does a great job of conveying futuristic haute cuisine. Cheats for after the fall Stephen Mohan Jr An Infinite Horizon Iftikhar is part of a team sent to investigate a research station that s gone dark One by one team members are picked offbut by who Or what I liked this until the last few lines which felt a bit trite The young man was glad for Firewall s existence Transhumanity was at the center of a strange political struggle whose rules it couldn t begin to even guess There would be great danger. Does the fall have an ending F Wesley Schneider Stray Thoughts A PI and her nearly adult kid take a job to track down a menton who s cut contact with his hyper mind Finding Vine takes on a personal edge than either expected I really liked this particularly because the characters immediately intrigued me I d love to read about Wehilani Lonoehu and her body switching family. After the fall discord Karin Lowachee A Resleeving of Love A spy transfers his consciousness into a common prostitute but finds out to his horror that he s now part of a being he can t really control 9780984583591 | After The Fall (Eclipse Phase) By Jaym Gates |
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