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• Author(s): Andrew May • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsFrom the Back CoverAliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity ... are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience...

• Author(s): Carly Anne York • Publisher: John Murray Press • Publisher Imprint: John Murray Press'York is a witty, whip-smart, lithely engaging science storyteller, truly one of our best' Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Fuzz A playful examinati...

• Author(s): Gary Loren McCallister • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: GeneralScience rests upon several basic assumptions, namely:1) There are rules ...

• Author(s): Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science Fiction - Collections & AnthologiesThe first English translation of a cult science fiction favorite by Hemendra Kumar Roy, one of th...

• Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTold with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, wo...

• Author(s): Barry B. Luokkala • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsHow does Einstein's description of space and time compare with Doctor Who? Can James Bond really escape from an armor-plated railroa...

• Author(s): Andy Sawyer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesGiven that science fiction, in its many forms and genres, engages in sometimes serious speculation about science, history, and all types of socia...

• Author(s): Alex Bing • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Physics - Quantum TheoryFrom Schr�dinger's Cat to Quantum Careers - Weird Physics, Wild Ideas, and Quirky Scientists Ready for a jou...

• Author(s): Michael Shermer • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsMichael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderl...

• Author(s): Leroy W. Dubeck • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: AIP • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Physics - GeneralAbout the Book In this work the author uses scenes from science fiction films to illustrate fundame...

• Author(s): Nathan Hale • Publisher: Harry N. Abrams • Publisher Imprint: Harry N. Abrams • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels - Science FictionStranger Things meets The Last Kids on Earth in Apocalypse Taco, a science fiction graphic novel from...

• Author(s): Stephen Webb • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThis book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories - all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both...

• Author(s): Paul J. Nahin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - GeneralContrary to popular belief, the goal of science fiction (SF) is not the prediction of the future, but rather to explore the multitude of poss...

• Author(s): Leroy W. Dubeck • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverWhat principle of mechanics is illustrated in the science fiction thriller Terminator 2: Judgment Day? How is nu...

• Author(s): Eric Kent Edstrom • Publisher: Undermountain Books LLC • Publisher Imprint: Undermountain Books LLC • BISAC: Science Fiction - Alien ContactSix troubled teens embark on an Outward Bound style excursion in the Canadian Rockies. But th...

• Author(s): Ian Liberman • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: CosmologyI am the creator of Pressman's Rock Trivia which sold over half million copies w...

• Author(s): Andrew May • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - AstrophysicsThere is a huge gulf between the real physics of space travel and the way it is commonly portrayed in movies and TV shows. That's not becau...

• Author(s): Charles L. Adler • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatemen...

• Author(s): Eric Choi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Space Science - AstronomyFrom the Back CoverJust Like Being There is the first collection of science fiction stories by award-winning author and aerospace enginee...

• Author(s): Neil Enock • Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, • Publisher Imprint: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, • BISAC: Fantasy - Collections & AnthologiesBook your ticket now for a trip to the future, the...

• Author(s): Jörg Matthias Determann • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis book explores the modern history of teaching science through science fiction. In the 1950s, British scientist and novelist ...

• Author(s): George Gamow • Publisher: Dover Publications • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications • BISAC: Physics - General". . . full of intellectual treats and tricks, of whimsy and deep scientific philosophy. It is highbrow entertainment at i...

• Author(s): Allan Weiss • Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, • Publisher Imprint: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, • BISAC: Fantasy - Collections & AnthologiesWHO CAN HELP... when a word decides to get up an...

• Author(s): Yair Neuman • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn a scientifically oriented world, our understanding of uncertainty is almost exclusively mediated by probabilistic ideas, whether na�vely underst...

• Author(s): Stephen Webb • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis anthology invites readers to revisit twelve timeless stories from visionary authors while pondering the scientific adv...

• Author(s): J. P. Telotte • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesThe Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of scie...

• Author(s): Ja Huss • Publisher: Science Future Press • Publisher Imprint: Science Future Press • BISAC: Romance - Time TravelWelcome to Mighty Minions Resort.Jimmy's personal hell.All Jimmy wants is a booster shot of DNA scrambler so he never h...

• Author(s): Mitchell Moffit • Publisher: Scribner Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Scribner Book Company • BISAC: Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & PhysiologyThe instant New York Times bestselling book of entertaining, irreverent, and totally...

• Author(s): Sherryl Vint • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Popular CultureBodies of Tomorrow argues for the importance of challenging visions of humanity in the future that overloo...

• Author(s): Gerd Ganteför • Publisher: Wiley-Vch • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Vch • BISAC: Physics - General

• Author(s): Lee Sigelman | Kenneth Newton | Kenneth Meier • Publisher: American Political Science Association • Publisher Imprint: American Political Science Association • BISAC: GeneralThe Wit & Humor of Political Science is the serendipito...

• Author(s): Christoffer Vuolo Junros • Publisher: Future Science Fiction Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Future Science Fiction Publishing • BISAC: Science Fiction - Action & AdventureOrigin Andromeda is the story of Henrik Harlacker, a norm...

• Author(s): S. a. Baker • Publisher: Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications • Publisher Imprint: Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications • BISAC: Fantasy - UrbanAll Davis wanted was a job. So when Winterbourne Home advertised a position for a...

• Author(s): Keith Cooper • Publisher: Reaktion Books • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books • BISAC: HistoryWith a stellar cast of scientists and science fictionists alike, a vivid exploration of realities behind imaginary planets. Have you ever w...

• Author(s): Amy C. Chambers | Lisa Garforth | Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesFocusing on embodied readers and empirical approaches to fiction reading,...

• Author(s): Martin Harris • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureExamining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional "us-versus-them" scenari...