Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Science and Fiction" - Springer

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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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2022-01-03 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 28,47 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Minding the Future Barry Dainton , Will Slocombe , Attila Tanyi 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2021-08-31 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 39,02 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Exploring Science Through Science Fiction Barry B. Luokkala 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,... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-11-01 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 36,91 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-01-23 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 31,64 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2019-01-07 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 31,64 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Consciousness and Science Fiction Damien Broderick 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... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-11-30 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF, ePub 34,80 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
First Contact and Time Travel Zoran Živkovic This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive essay on "The Theme of... Editeur : Springer Parution : 2018-07-12 Collection : Science and Fiction PDF 24,25 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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