Different Engines by Hook, N.; Brake, M.;

Rövid leírás:

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.

Hosszú leírás:

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.

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'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

Tartalomjegyzék:

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