Different Engines
How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
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Beschreibung
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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N. Hook
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Science Fiction cold war computer event fiction future nature science seventeenth century writing
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'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
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