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The Land Agent in Britain
Despite the fact that their archives survive in volume and depth across the country, relatively little is known about the fascinating and complex role of the land agent across time. For the very first time, this volume brings together historians, practitioners and representatives of the bodies overseeing the continuing professional development of agents to explore, in overview and through detailed case studies, the wide variety of skills required by those entering this profession. At the core of the contributions here is the sense of continuity which exists between the Anglo-Saxon Reeve and the highly qualified modern land agent. Skills such as a working knowledge of farming, entrepreneurial...
The Academy
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A Tale Told by a Machine
Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother and Her, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine's perspective. These new portrayals of artificial intelligence inevitably foreground dilemmas related to identity and selfhood, concepts being reassessed in the 21st century. Taking a close look at novels like Ancillary Justice, Aurora, All Systems Red, The Actuality, The Unseen World and Klara and the Sun, this work investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. It describes how these narratives challenge humanist principles by suggesting that selfhood is an illusion, even as they make the case for extending these principles to machines by proposing that they are not so different from humans. The book examines what is at stake with nonhuman narration, the qualities of AI narratives, and what it might mean to relate to a narrator when the voice adopted is that of an AI.
The Actuality
Fear makes her human . . . “The Actuality is smart, literary science fiction.” —Infinite Speculation She belongs to me. Property rights will prevail . . . Evie is a near-perfect bioengineered human. In a broken-down future where her kind has been outlawed, her ‘husband’, Matthew, keeps her safely hidden. But when Evie’s existence is revealed, she must take her chances on the dark and hostile streets, where more than one predator is on the hunt . . . “Written with flair and humanity . . . mesmerizing.” —The Times (London) “Exquisite. . . . Not since Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? have I felt so strongly about where artificial intelligence might lead us. Highly recommended.” —Christina Dalcher, author of Vox “Engaging, fast-moving and surprising . . . gives familiar science fiction themes a fresh and compassionate look, and makes of them something new.” —Ken MacLeod, BSFA Award–winning author of the Lightspeed Trilogy
The Dime Novel Detective
Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.
