The Worlds of Android - Visions of Life in the Future
Daniel Lovat Clark, Lukas Litzsinger, Katrina Ostrander, Zoë RobinsonThe Worlds of Android is your definitive guide to Android setting and its unique vision of the future. A beautiful, 272-page hardbound setting guide and art book, The Worlds of Android
features full-color art, stunning gatefolds, and a polyphony of
narrative voices that convey the immense diversity of human experience
in the rich, fictional universe made famous by Android: Netrunner and the Android board game.
Mankind has spread itself out across the solar system with varying
degrees of success. The Moon and Mars are colonized. A plan to terraform
Mars is well underway, hindered only by a civil war that has broken out
on that planet. On Earth, a massive space elevator has been built,
stretching up into the sky. It is the hub of trade in the solar system,
and most people refer to it as the “Beanstalk.” Enormous
megacorporations, called corps by most, influence every facet of daily
life: food, threedee, music, career choices.
Throughout its three sections, The Worlds of Android
explores these corps and their most visionary innovations. It explores
what technological advances and extraterrestrial expansion mean to a
human population that no longer resides exclusively on Earth. And it
explores the question of what it means to be human in a world filled
with clones, bioroids, and other forms of artificial intelligence.