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New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
305 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am23.01.20191st ed. 2019
This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages.mehr
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KlappentextThis book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers - dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-03194-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum23.01.2019
Auflage1st ed. 2019
ReiheScience and Fiction
Seiten305 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht504 g
IllustrationenXIII, 305 p. 22 illus., 14 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.45808607

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Life ... but not as we know.- Transmogrification.- Pandemic.- Life on Mars.- Artificial Intelligence.- Attractive Androids.- Big Data.- Faster Than Light Travel.- Antigravity.- Matter Transmission.- The Sub-microscopic World.- Impact Events.mehr

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Autor

Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life in 2015, All the Wonder that Would Be - Exploring Past Notions of the Future in 2017, also published as part of Springer's Science and Fiction series, as well as recently, Clash of Symbols - A ride through the riches of glyphs. His 2018 TED talk on aliens has to date been watched more than 1.75 million times.