Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track, (Paperback)

from RandyStafford

My reactions upon reading this book in 1991. Regis' fast-paced style has enough wit to make this book funny and lend just the right amount of incredulity and sarcasm. Many of the ideas of these supremely confidant, hubristic thinkers are not that new to an sf reader, even one who doesn't specific...

from VisibleGhost

How does a Great Mambo Chicken come about anyway? Well, some scientists were sitting around wandering what was so great about living in one-G conditions all the time. They made a big centrifuge, put some straw, chicken feed, and some chickens in there and spun them up to two-and-a-half Gs for mon...

from nerichardson

technolibertarians and the madcap extropian future were a lot more fun back in 1990

from BakuDreamer

This is out of date now ( 1990 ) The net has made this kind of book not very useful anymore ( but it would have been in 90 )

from datrappert

Rather disappointing after the brilliant "Who Got Einstein's Office", perhaps because it is a collection of short pieces so lacks a cohesive focus. Entertaining nevertheless, but only periodically informative.