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Robert M. Geraci

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Born

The United States

Website

https://robertgeraci.com

Twitter

professorgeraci

Genre

Religion, Science Fiction, Science

Influences

gary gygax, j.z. smith, bruno latour, ursula leguin, lloyd alexander

Member Since

April 2014

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After 19 years in NY, I'm now the Knight Distinguished Chair in the Study of Religion and Culture at Knox College.

I'm pretty sure that everyone loves robots, which is why I've written a book about them. People love games too, so I wrote another book. I'm also interested in the toadstool circles, the ancient temples, the soaring cathedrals of our religious imagination. Likewise, the dark tunnels of mining and rapid transit. I visit mountains, deserts, temples, laboratories, factories, virtual realities...the places where magic enters the world.

I grew up playing Dungeons & Dragons, and my generation conquered American culture. I take considerable pride in the fact that the games we played as kids were the seminal influence upon so much of mo ...more

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Average rating: 3.47 · 51 ratings · 13 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality 3.34 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtually Sacred: Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft and Second Life 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preternature V5:2: Preternatural Environments by Debbie Felton, Hannah Kagan-Moore, Juanita Feros Ruys it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futures of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from India and the U.S. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Futureproofing Humanity: Existential Risk and the Technomyths of Human Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Future among the Stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2026 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Robert Geraci rated a book really liked it Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
this is a reasonably profound book, and the writing is sophisticated and stylish. but, alas, it is not an enjoyable book. the author plays with the idea that much of the world in which we live cannot be seen with the eye and, indeed, that perhaps the ...more
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