by Carme Torras · The MIT Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780262037778
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«The Vestigial Heart» is the science fiction novel by Carme Torras, published by The MIT Press in paperback, with 262 pages, in English.
In a future where human emotions have almost disappeared, Celia, a 21st-century girl, wakes from a cryogenic sleep in a society of assistant robots. Lu, her adoptive mother, doesn't understand her; Silvana, an emotional masseuse, sees in her a vestige of lost feelings; Leo, a bioengineer, wants to restore human creativity.
English translation of the Catalan novel «La mutació sentimental», winner of the Ictineu Award and the Ciutat de Mataró Manuel de Pedrolo Award for Science Fiction Narrative.
For science fiction readers interested in the ethics of robotics and the social impact of artificial intelligence.
Carme Torras Genís is a Spanish computer scientist who has contributed to research on robotics and artificial intelligence. A member of Academia Europaea since 2010, she writes technical works in English and fiction in Catalan.
