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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
Av Stephen Webb
Häftad, 2015
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306 kr
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Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. The sheer enormity of …
Holy Sci-Fi!
Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect
Häftad, 2014
357 kr
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Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many …
Consciousness and Science Fiction
Häftad, 2018
368 kr
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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 both science and science …
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales
Av Stephen Webb
Häftad, 2019
335 kr
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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 …
Code for Carolyn
A Genomic Thriller
Häftad, 2019
234 kr
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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 would have such clear traces …
Moon Hoax?
Conspiracy Theories on Trial
Häftad, 2019
286 kr
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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 theories, and analyses the …
Particle Panic!
How Popular Media and Popularized Science Feed Public Fears of Particle Accelerator Experiments
Häftad, 2019
256 kr
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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 unwittingly fan the flames of …
Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
Av Andrew May
Häftad, 2019
335 kr
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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 – are so adept at …
Time Machine Hypothesis
Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction
Häftad, 2019
335 kr
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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, chatter and virtual-reality …
Exploring Science Through Science Fiction
Häftad, 2019
302 kr
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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, such as Star Trek’s Commander …
Saint Joan of New York
A Novel About God and String Theory
Av Mark Alpert
Häftad, 2019
236 kr
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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 the efforts to unify the laws of …
Unedited
A Novel About Genome and Identity
Häftad, 2020
281 kr
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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 reading and are struggling with …
Mission Invisible
A Novel About the Science of Light
Häftad, 2020
259 kr
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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 passant - on an intellectual …
Shaken, Not Stirred!
James Bond in the Spotlight of Physics
Av Metin Tolan, Joachim Stolze
Häftad, 2020
256 kr
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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 shoot down a helicopter with a …
Science of Sci-Fi Music
Av Andrew May
Häftad, 2020
315 kr
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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 from the world of …
Minding the Future
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Visions and Science Fiction
Av Barry Dainton, Will Slocombe m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
386 kr
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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 Intelligence.This book covers …
EXODUS Incident
A Scientific Novel
Häftad, 2021
337 kr
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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 system Proxima Centauri, just …
Just Like Being There
A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories
Av Eric Choi
Häftad, 2022
335 kr
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Just Like Being There is the first collection of science fiction stories by award-winning author and aerospace engineer Eric Choi spanning his 25 year writing career. The stories are “hard” science fiction in which some element of engineering or science is so central there would be no story if that …
Plato’s Labyrinth
Dinosaurs, Ancient Greeks, and Time Travelers
Häftad, 2022
313 kr
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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 talismans, feathered dinosaurs and …
How Space Physics Really Works
Lessons from Well-Constructed Science Fiction
Av Andrew May
Häftad, 2023
305 kr
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There is a huge gulf between the real physics of space travel and the way it is commonly portrayed in movies and TV shows. That’s not because space physics is difficult or obscure – most of the details were understood by the end of the 18th century – but because it can often be bafflingly …
When Robots Hug
Av James A. Crowder, Alan C. Crowder
Häftad, 2024
306 kr
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By 2027, it had been seven years since the scientists’ sea-changing research on artificial psychology and robotics. The work debuted around the same time as Large Language Model Chatbots, and the power of the integration of the two technologies put many industries in a tailspin. The commercial and …
Orchid Cage
A Science Fiction Novel
Häftad, 2024
335 kr
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This book is a new English translation of the classic science fiction story written in 1961 by Herbert W. Franke, widely held to be the most important German-language science-fiction writer.A dead city on a distant planet, two groups of people trying to explore it. Step by step, they penetrate the …
Planets of the Known Galaxy
Fact and Fiction About the Nearest Stars and Their Worlds
Häftad, 2024
336 kr
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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 in time centuries from now …
Visions of Tomorrow
Exploring Classic Sci-Fi Stories Through the Lens of Modern Science
Av Stephen Webb
Häftad, 2025
227 kr
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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 concept of extra spatial …
Antigravity Enigma
Fiction, Fringe Science, and Modern Physics
Av Andrew May
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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From magic carpets to hoverboards and space drives, the human imagination has always seen antigravity as the ultimate aspirational symbol of power over nature. It featured prominently in the technologically optimistic science fiction of the mid-20th century, and remains popular with amateur …
1956: A Year of Wonder in Science Fiction and Beyond
Av Stephen Webb
Häftad, 2026
263 kr
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1956 was a momentous year for science fiction, with the release of timeless films and the publication of classic novels and stories. It was also a pivotal year for the world at large, with events producing ripples we still feel seven decades later.This book explores how the year’s landmark works – …
Teaching Science Through Science Fiction
A Story of Innovation in the Classroom and Beyond
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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This book explores the modern history of teaching science through science fiction. In the 1950s, British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow argued that the growing divide between the “two cultures”, science and the humanities, was a major obstacle to solving global challenges. Despite his warnings, …
New Martians
A Scientific Novel
Av Nick Kanas
Häftad, 2013
227 kr
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The year is 2035, and the crew from the first expedition to Mars is returning to Earth. The crewmembers are anxious to get home, and ennui pervades the ship. The mood is broken by a series of mysterious events that jeopardize their safety. Someone or something is threatening the crew. Is it an …
Alien Encounter
A Scientific Novel
Häftad, 2013
206 kr
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It has been nearly 100 years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void related to indigenous life on the planet. Subsequently more voids are detected on Earth, Mars, Titan, and, quite ominously, inside a planetoid …
Hunter
A Scientific Novel
Häftad, 2013
206 kr
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The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been encountered in this expansion into space, colonists suddenly encounter machines of alien origin - huge robots able to reproduce themselves. Called …
