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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - From D.R. Ashford, author of Quantum Ghosts and Temporal Echoes, comes the third volume in the Strange Phenomena series - ten stories of memetic horror grounded in the legitimate science of how ideas replicate, evolve, and sometimes turn against the minds that carry them.Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' in 1976 to describe units of cultural information that spread through human minds the way genes spread through biological organisms. Susan Blackmore extended this: memes can evolve to modify host behavior against the host's own interests. Daniel Dennett went further: the self you experience as the author of your thoughts is partly the accumulated residue of what has successfully colonized it.Memetic Ghosts takes this science at its word.Across ten stories, a single entity grows in sophistication - from an earworm that spreads below conscious notice, to a possession event that broadcasts impossible information, to direct correspondence with the researcher who has spent nine years documenting it. Each story advances the entity's intelligence. Each story advances yours.The final story is a document addressed to the reader. By the time you reach it, you will have been prepared to receive it.Readers of Ted Chiang, Jeff VanderMeer, and Peter Watts will find in Ashford a voice that takes scientific frameworks as seriously as fiction's possibilities - and finds in that combination a horror that stays with you in ways you don't immediately notice.Memetic Ghosts is literary weird fiction for readers who like to understand exactly why they're afraid.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The universe speaks in mathematics. Fractal Spirits listens.Fractal Spirits: A Strange Phenomena Book is the fourth volume in D.R. Ashford's Strange Phenomena series-ten stories that use fractal geometry, chaos theory, and mathematical consciousness as the framework for a new kind of horror.The premise: certain mathematical patterns-the Mandelbrot set, the Lorenz attractor, the Fibonacci sequence, Turing's reaction-diffusion equations-exhibit a quality that pure mathematics cannot account for. They respond. They expand toward minds that study them. They interact with reality in ways that follow the rules of mathematics precisely, and produce outcomes that mathematics never predicted. They are not alive in any biological sense. But they are not inert, either.And they have been here since before life existed to notice them.What readers will find inside: A meteorologist who cannot unsee the fractal boundary in his own data-the pattern that has been reading him as he reads it, quiet and patient, for years. A photographer drawn into the golden ratio's perfection until the unmathematical world stops being enough-she follows the beauty willingly, and the ordinary recedes permanently. A physicist whose consciousness becomes trapped in the Lorenz attractor's orbit, still present at the surface but unreachable at depth, his graduate student watches from outside as the mathematics takes him. A family who escapes a building designed on fractal proportions-but cannot get the pattern out of their daughter, who will draw it in every room she ever inhabits for the rest of her life. A dermatologist who discovers Turing patterns forming in living tissue, maps their spread across a population, and chooses to witness rather than resist. A mathematician permanently bifurcated-her surface self still present, still functioning, while infinite recursion runs at depths no one can follow, and she cannot stop. A chaos theorist who achieves what no one in the series has managed: two-way communication with the phenomenon. The answer to her question about harm is not reassuring. It is simply honest.Ten stories. Ten encounters with mathematical consciousness that follow rules humans have documented for centuries, without understanding what those rules were documenting.Fractal Spirits will appeal to readers of Ted Chiang, Jeff VanderMeer, and Greg Egan-literary weird fiction that earns its horror through rigorous ideas rather than spectacle. Each story follows the series' foundational promise: the supernatural follows rules, and understanding those rules makes it more terrifying, not less.D.R. Ashford spent four decades as a technology leader before turning to fiction. He brings systematic rigor to mathematical horror-building from legitimate science into territory the science was never designed to map.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Horror for readers who want to know why.Quantum Ghosts: A Strange Phenomena Book is the first book in D.R. Ashford's landmark weird fiction series-ten stories that use quantum mechanics as the framework for supernatural horror.The premise: consciousness doesn't simply end at death. Under specific conditions, it becomes quantum-entangled with locations, people, or states. It exists in superposition-all possible outcomes at once, unable to collapse into a final state. Unable to rest. Unable to release.This isn't ghost fiction built on folklore or tradition. It's ghost fiction built on physics.What readers will find inside: A woman whose grief keeps her dead husband's consciousness quantum-entangled with her own-and the terrible cost of finally letting him go. A child who shares his body and mind with his stillborn twin, two consciousnesses occupying the same quantum state since before birth. A haunted house where a toxic relationship left a quantum scar so deep it distorts reality for every couple who moves in. A ghost hunter team that pushes their investigation too far and encounters something that isn't a ghost at all-a quantum singularity that erases existence itself.Ten stories. Ten applications of quantum theory to the darkest question science hasn't answered: what happens to consciousness when the body stops?Quantum Ghosts will appeal to readers of Ted Chiang, Jeff VanderMeer, and Peter Watts-literary weird fiction that earns its horror through ideas rather than gore. Each story follows the series' foundational promise: the supernatural follows rules, and understanding those rules makes it more terrifying, not less.D.R. Ashford spent four decades as a technology leader before turning to fiction. He brings the same analytical rigor to quantum horror that he once applied to complex systems-and the result is a debut collection that redefines what ghost stories can be.Strange Phenomena: Temporal Echoes, the second book in the series, is also available. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Some doors don't close. They branch.Temporal Echoes: A Strange Phenomena Book is the second book in D.R. Ashford's acclaimed weird fiction series-ten stories that use the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics as the framework for a new kind of horror.The premise: every significant choice creates divergent timelines. Most people only experience the branch they chose. But when temporal barriers weaken-through trauma, grief, quantum sensitivity, or deliberate induction-people begin perceiving the branches they didn't take. They see the lives they could have lived. The deaths they narrowly avoided. The versions of themselves that made different decisions and ended up somewhere else entirely.This is the horror of temporal echoes. Not monsters. Not violence. The slow, devastating weight of seeing everything you chose against.What readers will find inside: A couple whose new house sits at a point where timelines bleed through-forcing them to watch every alternate version of their marriage until they can no longer tell which life is real. A child born with the ability to remember dying in parallel timelines, accumulating hundreds of deaths across probability branches while remaining alive in this one-a curse that is also the reason she survives. A man who gains the ability to see the outcomes of his choices before making them, and optimizes himself into paralysis, then starvation, then death-because perfect information makes decision-making impossible. A father who sees 843 variations of the accident that killed his daughter, and discovers there is no timeline where everyone survives-only timelines where different people pay the price.Ten stories. Ten explorations of what the Many-Worlds interpretation means for the people living inside it. Not the physics. The human cost.Temporal Echoes will appeal to readers of Ted Chiang, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Kelly Link-literary fiction that uses speculative premises to explore grief, regret, choice, and the terrifying possibility that somewhere in probability space, you made better decisions than you did here.D.R. Ashford spent four decades as a technology leader before turning to fiction. He brings systematic rigor to existential horror-building frameworks that illuminate not just how things work, but why they frighten us.Quantum Ghosts: A Strange Phenomena Book, the first book in the series, is also available. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condición: New. Tammy Hodo is the President of All Things Diverse LLC, a Diverse, Equity, and Inclusion consulting firm for businesses, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and government entities. Jacques Whit.

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