Download or read book Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition written by Ed Regis and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1991-09-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic eggshell, and faxing human minds to the far side of the galaxy. With Ed Regis as your guide, walk the fine line between science fact and fiction on this freewheeling and riotously funny tour through some of the most serious science there is.