Tous les ebooks de la collection "Science and Fiction" - Springer

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Visions of Tomorrow Stephen Webb 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2025-01-31 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 21,09 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The EXODUS Incident Peter Schattschneider 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-05-21 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Mission Invisible Ulf Leonhardt 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-02-14 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 24,25 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Unedited Pernille Rørth 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2020-01-23 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 26,36 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Saint Joan of New York Mark Alpert 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-11-24 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 24,25 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-07-12 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 31,64 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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 –... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-04-12 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 31,64 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Particle Panic! Kristine Larsen 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-04-04 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 26,36 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-02-06 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 28,47 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Code for Carolyn V. Anne Smith 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-02-01 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 26,36 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Lords of the Ice Moons Michael Carroll What happens with something becomes someone?In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-10-08 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 17,92 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War Andrew May The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, readers of science fiction (SF)... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-05-26 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF 26,36 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Dark Arrow of Time Massimo Villata This riveting scientific novel combines adventure, love, suspense, magic, pathos, and mystery in a carefully woven plot that is full of unexpected twists and turns. The author is an astrophysicist who has developed an alternative theory, which holds that traveling in... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-11-17 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF 21,09 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-09-05 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 34,80 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation Stephen Cass , Kevin R. Grazier Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in Hollywood productions. Both big and small-screen productions are featured and their science content illuminated—first by... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-08-02 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 24,25 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies All the Wonder that Would Be Stephen Webb It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2017-05-03 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 26,36 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-12-24 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 34,80 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-11-15 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 34,80 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Europa's Lost Expedition Michael Carroll This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa, backed up by the latest scientific findings on this icy satellite. The science fiction premise explores real possibilities of exploring other bodies in the... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-09-26 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 21,09 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Pseudoscience and Science Fiction Andrew May Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2016-09-13 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 24,25 € PDF ePub
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