New light through old windows : exploring contemporary science through 12 classic science fiction tales

Responsibility
Stephen Webb.
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Publication
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]
Physical description
1 online resource
Series
Science and fiction (Springer (Firm))

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator
Webb, Stephen, 1963- author.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • 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.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Publisher's summary
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. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding the story's main theme and provide the reader with suggestions for further reading. .
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Bibliographic information

Publication date
2019
Series
Science and fiction
ISBN
3030031950 (electronic book)
9783030031961 (print)
3030031969
9783030031954 (electronic bk.)
9783030031947
3030031942
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-03195-4

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