[extropy-chat] Transhuman Space book and role playing game

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Has anyone seen this? This type of material can be useful to spread
transhumanist memes among teenagers.
In the coming decades, technologies like genetic engineering, artificial
intelligence, and nanotechnology will transform humanity. A strange new
world is unfolding -- nightmarish to some, utopian to others. Soon we'll
have the power to reshape our children's genes, build machines that think,
and upload our minds into computers.
And Earth no longer confines us. Space tourism, mining the Moon and
asteroids, a settlement on Mars: all are dreams poised to take wing. The
universe of Transhuman Space is a synthesis of these two visions -- a world
in which ultra-technology and space travel fuse to forge a new destiny for
mankind. Neither utopia nor dystopia, it is a place of hopes, fears, and new
frontiers.
I have not seen the book but from the description on the website it seems a
good way to introduce young persons to these concepts.
It's the year 2100. Humans have colonized the solar system. China and
America struggle for control of Mars. The Royal Navy patrols the asteroid
belt. Nanotechnology has transformed life on Earth forever, and
gene-enhanced humans share the world with artificial intelligences and
robotic cybershells. Our solar system has become a setting as exciting and
alien as any interstellar empire. Pirate spaceships hijacking black holes .
. . sentient computers and artificial "bioroids" demanding human rights . .
. nanotechnology and mind control . . . Transhuman Space is cutting-edge
science fiction adventure that begins where cyberpunk ends.
This book contains a complete roleplaying game: A future history of the next
100 years: the rise of China, the terraforming of Mars, and the birth of the
first artifical intelligence - A gazetteer of solar solar system, from Earth
to thriving colonies on Luna, Mars, and beyond - A detailed encyclopedia of
transhuman space - Dozens of transhuman character templates, from
space-adapted parahumans to digital infomorphs.
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