First Contact and Time Travel Selected Essays and Short Stories /

• Main Author: Živković, Zoran (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Literature.; Astronomy.; Fiction.; Philosophy of nature.; Philosophy.; Popular Science in Literature.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Philosophy of Nature.; Popular Science in Philosophy.

This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive essay on "The Theme of First Contact in the SF W...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1: Essays
• The Theme of First Contact in the SF Works of Arthur C Clarke
• Chronomotion
• The Labyrinth Motif in SF
• Part II: Fiction
• The Bookshop
• The Puzzle
• Time Gifts
• The Cone
• Epilogue.