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Télécharger le livre :  Planets of the Known Galaxy
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Planets of the Known Galaxy


Kevin J. E. Walsh


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...

Parution : 2024-11-15
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Plato's Labyrinth
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Plato's Labyrinth


Michael Carroll


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...

Parution : 2022-01-03
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  The Science of Sci-Fi Music
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The Science of Sci-Fi Music


Andrew May


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...

Parution : 2020-06-30
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  The Time Machine Hypothesis
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The Time Machine Hypothesis


Damien Broderick


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,...

Parution : 2019-07-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science
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Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science


Andrew May


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 –...

Parution : 2019-04-12
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  The Moon Hoax?
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The Moon Hoax?


Thomas Eversberg


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...

Parution : 2019-02-06
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Incident on Simpac III
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Incident on Simpac III


Doug Brugge


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...

Parution : 2019-01-23
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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
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New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales


Stephen Webb


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...

Parution : 2019-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination
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Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination


Russell Blackford


In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the...

Parution : 2017-09-05
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Time Machine Tales
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Time Machine Tales


Paul J. Nahin


This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the...

Parution : 2016-12-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Science Fiction by Scientists
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Science Fiction by Scientists


Michael Brotherton


This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people who do science...

Parution : 2016-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Hollyweird Science
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Hollyweird Science


Stephen Cass , Kevin R. Grazier


Lighthearted, quirky, and upbeat, this book explores the portrayal of science and technology on both the big and little screen -- and how Hollywood is actually doing a better job of getting it right than ever before. Grounded in the real-word, and often cutting-edge,...

Parution : 2015-07-27
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
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If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?


Stephen Webb


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...

Parution : 2015-05-18
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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