School of Arts, Media and Engineering

Cover for the edited volume "Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures," depicting the inside of a futuristic space station.

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities

Subtitle
A Collection of Space Futures

Edited by Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To…

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Frankenstein

Subtitle
Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds

Mary Shelley

Edited by Jason Scott Robert, Ed Finn and David H. Guston

Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author…

The book cover for What Algorithms Want, showing a distorted image of a city skyline in black and white.

What Algorithms Want

Subtitle
Imagination in the Age of Computing

Ed Finn

We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to…

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Riemannian Computing in Computer Vision

Edited by Pavan Turaga and Anuj Srivastava

This book presents a comprehensive treatise on Riemannian geometric computations and related statistical inferences in several computer vision problems. This edited volume includes…

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Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual

Subtitle
Or I Was Cursed by Polly Holiday

Leslie L. Smith

A 2015 Reader's Favorite Finalist, this tale of sex, loss, redemption and pharmaceuticals in the modern AIDS era that will make you laugh, break your heart and inspire you. Leslie L…

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Leaving The Rest

Subtitle
Gay Men on Alcoholism, Addiction and Recovery

Edited by Leslie L. Smith

"Leaving the Rest" explores a wide range of sober experiences, each in relation to a 12-step program and with varied levels of success. Among the stories, a businessman is committed to…

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Journeys Through Time and Space

Edited by G. Pascal Zachary and Ed Finn

Humanity defines itself by its journeys. Whether we’re crossing oceans, blasting off into space, migrating to distant unknown lands, or pursuing voyages of discovery within our own minds…

Cover of Hieroglyph book, showing a pen-and-ink drawing of an Erlenmeyer flask against a blue background.

Hieroglyph

Subtitle
Stories and Visions for a Better Future

Edited by Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn

Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, this anthology of stories set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries,…

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Overview

Subtitle
Stories in the Stratosphere

Edited by Michael G. Bennett, Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

This collection of science fiction stories, art, and speculative timelines explores the near future of the stratosphere. From "Star Trek" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "The Martian,"…

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Dark Futures

Edited by G. Pascal Zachary and Ed Finn

One person’s utopia is another’s dystopia, but both perspectives have one thing in common—hope for humanity is taken away when all the questions are answered for us. Science fiction is…