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Different Engines Neil Hook

Different Engines By Neil Hook

Different Engines by Neil Hook

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Summary

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines traces the way in which we've imagined the future.

Different Engines Summary

Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science by Neil Hook

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines traces the way in which we've imagined the future.

Different Engines Reviews

'An excellent starting point for passionate arguments on fascinating subjects.' www.asimovs.com 'In Different Engines, Professor Mark Brake and Reverend Neil Hook take us on a tour of science fiction through the ages. They show how the genre extends far beyond mere entertainment and often provides a profound exploration of the interface between science and society and the impact that new technologies or discoveries, such as that of alien life, are likely to have.' - Lewis Dartnell, The Astrobiology Society of Britain

About Neil Hook

Reverend NEIL HOOK is Associate Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of Glamorgan and an Anglican priest in the Welsh Mountains. Neil's research focuses on the relationship between science and science fiction. His work was recently profiled in the BBC's Science Fiction Britannia series. When not working Neil spends most of his life living in his own science fictional world where he is young, handsome and almost always saves the day. Professor MARK BRAKE holds a chair in science communication at the University of Glamorgan, UK, where he founded the world's first degree program on the historical interplay between space, science and culture. As an astrobiology and science fiction expert, he appears on and writes for TV and radio most weeks, including BBC, Sky Movies and the Discovery Channel; he is a consultant to the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle and the Australian Centre for Astrobiology. A founder member of NASA's Astrobiology Institute Communication Group, Mark feels we'll only settle the life on Mars debate by visiting the surface with a shovel.

Table of Contents

A plurality of habitable worlds: the age of discovery Remembrance of things to come: the mechanical age Pulp fiction: the Astounding age Cold War and heat death: the atomic age Stranger in a Strange Land : the new age Information wants to be free: the computer age The Frankenstein century: the age of biology Index

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GOR001352294
9780230019805
0230019803
Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science by Neil Hook
Neil Hook
Macmillan Science
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
20070101
250
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