Elon Musk

In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and ...

In a 1950 conversation at Los Alamos, four world-class scientists generally agreed, given the size of the Universe, that advanc...

This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propell...

The sixth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.

In the winter pal...

The seventh Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction.

It was one of t...

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindle...

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, an...

Merchants of Doubt has been praised―and attacked―around the world, for reasons easy to understand. This book tells, with “bruta...

From the component design, to the subsystem design, to the engine systems design, engine development and flight-vehicle applica...

In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government ...

Richard Branson, one of the world’s most famous and admired business leaders, argues that it’s time to turn capitalism upside...

The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second...

The first ever collection of Iain M. Banks's short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art....

Walter Isaacson’s “enthralling” (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Based on mor...

A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time—part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of...

For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back--or giv...

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents...

It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.

It begins with a murder.

And it will not end until the ...

“Never confuse Motion with Action.” ― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjami...