Existential sci-fi, a restore handbook for the local weather disaster, EC Comics resurrected

New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our consideration.

Towards Eternity by Anton Hur

Toward Eternity doesn’t waste any time in attending to the drama. The novel by Anton Hur begins within the not-so-far-off future, and opens with a second of disaster: a affected person in a nanotherapy analysis clinic has seemingly vanished into skinny air. This affected person had been present process a brand new kind of therapy that makes use of android cells (dubbed “nanites”) to treatment most cancers by changing the physique’s personal cells. In doing so, nevertheless, it transforms the physique fully right into a nanodroid, giving rise to “nano people” which might be not subjected to mortality.

The story jumps via time and completely different views, exploring what it means “to be human in a world the place know-how is shortly catching as much as biology.” From the second I began studying this one, I didn’t need to put it down.

Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Environment by Rob Jackson

It may be exhausting to not get swept up within the doom and gloom of local weather change, particularly amid stories marking Earth’s hottest years on record and still-rising emissions from fossil fuels. Stanford local weather scientist Rob Jackson’s new e-book Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere goals to foster a extra optimistic outlook by calling consideration to the programs of motion that would lead us to a greater future for our planet and its inhabitants.

“I view my e-book as a house restore handbook for the planet,” Jackson stated in a latest interview revealed by the scientific journal ACS Central Science. “It highlights the individuals and the concepts wanted to unravel the local weather disaster. I need most of all to offer individuals hope, a way of optimism. Sure, local weather change is already unhealthy, however we will nonetheless repair this drawback.”

Epitaphs from the Abyss #1

Legendary comedian e-book writer EC Comics, which introduced us sequence like Tales from the Crypt and Bizarre Science greater than 70 years in the past, is making a comeback with its first new sequence in a long time: Epitaphs from the Abyss. The primary situation of the horror sequence was launched on the finish of July and options 4 tales — that are launched by a ghoulish narrator dubbed The Grave-Digger.

Epitaphs from the Abyss #1 has tales by Brian Azzarello, J. Holtham, Stephanie Phillips and Chris Condon, with artwork by Lee Bermejo, Phil Hester, Peter Krause and Jorge Fornés. There’s one thing about these previous EC Comics that simply hits completely different, and Epitaphs faithfully slips again into that vibe to ship spooky new tales which have a traditional really feel.

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