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

• Main Author: Webb, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: 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...

Table of 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.