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Gregory Stock Publications

The Book of Questions (2013)

An update of the bestselling Book of Questions, the revised book poses over 300 questions that invite people to explore the most fascinating of subjects: themselves. It’s a book that can be used as an avenue for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a way to get to know someone quickly, or simply as a fun way to pass the time on long car trips. The revised edition is completely updated, and features over 100 new questions that reflect the current culture shifts of the past 25 years.

Redesigning Humans, Our Inevitable Genetic Future (1997)

The author of this book is one of the best apologists for genetic engineering alive today, and this book is a fine example of his sound argumentation and common sense. He is unashamed of his position, delightfully unabashed, and one gets the impression while reading the book that he is very excited to be alive and be witness to the incredible advances in genetic engineering now taking place. Those who support the genetic engineering of humans should read the book, along with those that don’t.

Metaman (1993)

In this supremely optimistic futuristic survey, Stock argues that a symbiotic union of smart machines and humans, combined with increasingly interdependent global communications, trade and travel, is coalescing civilization into “Metaman”, a planetary superorganism. Constantly monitoring itself and its environment, Metaman is responding, albeit slowly, to global warming, overpopulation, the need to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and other crises. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, this wide-angled report fails to convince the reader that Metaman is anything more than a metaphor.