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Télécharger le livre : Visions of Tomorrow
Stephen Webb
Visions of Tomorrow
This anthology invites readers to revisit twelve timeless stories from visionary authors while pondering the scientific advancements they foreshadowed, making it ideal for fans of both science fiction and science. In Algernon Blackwood’s A Victim of Higher Space, the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-01-31
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Planets of the Known Galaxy
Kevin J. E. Walsh
Planets of the Known Galaxy
This book offers a tour of “the known galaxy”, here defined as the region of interstellar space closest to Earth. The phrase “the known galaxy” has a particular resonance in science fiction, as it refers to the part of the Milky Way that from the perspective of a point...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-11-15
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Plato's Labyrinth
Michael Carroll
Plato's Labyrinth
One wants to preserve history.Another seeks to resurrect a legendary army.A third plans to infuse the past with technology to save millions.If you could go back in time, what would you do?Something strange is going on at ChronoCorp. Coffin-shaped pods and glowing...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-01-03
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Minding the Future
Barry Dainton , Will Slocombe , Attila Tanyi
Minding the Future
Bringing together literary scholars, computer scientists, ethicists, philosophers of mind, and scholars from affiliated disciplines, this collection of essays offers important and timely insights into the pasts, presents, and, above all, possible futures of Artificial...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-08-31
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : The EXODUS Incident
Peter Schattschneider
The EXODUS Incident
In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism. A global nuclear war is imminent. Interstellar probes from the Breakthrough Starshot project initiated by J. Milner and S. Hawking have discovered a habitable planet in the stellar...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-05-21
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Shaken, Not Stirred!
Joachim Stolze , Metin Tolan
Shaken, Not Stirred!
How do James Bond’s X-ray glasses work, the ones he uses to see whether the lady at the roulette table has a pistol concealed in her underwear? Is it really possible to launch oneself into the air and catch up with a plane that is free-falling towards the earth? Or to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-09-08
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : The Science of Sci-Fi Music
Andrew May
The Science of Sci-Fi Music
The 20th century saw radical changes in the way serious music is composed and produced, including the advent of electronic instruments and novel compositional methods such as serialism and stochastic music. Unlike previous artistic revolutions, this one took its cues...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-06-30
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Mission Invisible
Ulf Leonhardt
Mission Invisible
Invisibility has fascinated people since time immemorial, but only a decade ago did invisibility become a serious subject of scientific investigation. This lively novel, authored by an expert in the field, takes the reader on a journey to fascinating places and - en...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-02-14
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : The Unedited
Pernille Rørth
The Unedited
This novel is set in the near future, where human genome editing has become routine. First adopted to fight a lethal virus, it is now widely used to prevent diseases and favor other traits. Ben, Eiko, Celia, Raphael and Leo have just had their coming-of-age genome...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-01-23
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Saint Joan of New York
Mark Alpert
Saint Joan of New York
SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-24
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Exploring Science Through Science Fiction
Barry B. Luokkala
Exploring Science Through Science Fiction
How does Einstein’s description of space and time compare with Doctor Who?  Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroad car by cutting through the floor with a laser concealed in a wristwatch? What would it take to create a fully intelligent android,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-01
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : The Time Machine Hypothesis
Damien Broderick
The Time Machine Hypothesis
Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-07-12
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
Andrew May
Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
People are used to seeing “fake physics” in science fiction – concepts like faster-than-light travel, antigravity and time travel to name a few. The fiction label ought to be a giveaway, but some SF writers – especially those with a background in professional science –...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-04-12
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Particle Panic!
Kristine Larsen
Particle Panic!
From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists themselves often...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-04-04
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : The Moon Hoax?
Thomas Eversberg
The Moon Hoax?
This book is about the American moon-landings – and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings. Were the images of men on the moon really just a huge and cleverly executed hoax? Eversberg explains the best-known claims and conspiracy...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-02-06
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : A Code for Carolyn
V. Anne Smith
A Code for Carolyn
Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the "Human Hoax" ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X—a chromosomal abnormality—yet no synthetically constructed genome...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-02-01
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Incident on Simpac III
Doug Brugge
Incident on Simpac III
A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is guided by a new computational method based on massive data-driven socio-cultural and socio-epidemiological modeling and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-23
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales
Stephen Webb
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales
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...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-07
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre : Consciousness and Science Fiction
Damien Broderick
Consciousness and Science Fiction
Science fiction explores the wonderful, baffling and wildly entertaining aspects of a universe unimaginably old and vast, and with a future even more immense. It reaches into that endless cosmos with the tools of rational investigation and storytelling. At the core of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-11-30
Collection : Science and Fiction
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34,80 €
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Télécharger le livre : Lords of the Ice Moons
Michael Carroll
Lords of the Ice Moons
What happens with something becomes someone?In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-08
Collection : Science and Fiction
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