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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Webb, Stephen (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Science and Fiction,
• Θέματα: Physics.; Literature.; Fiction.; Artificial intelligence.; Popular Science in Physics.; Popular Science in Literature.; Artificial Intelligence.

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 a...

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• 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.