Title:
Different engines : how science drives fiction and fiction drives science
Author:
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Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
London : Macmillan, c2008.
Physical Description:
265 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9780230019805
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.
Language:
English
