Different engines : how science drives fiction and fiction drives science / Mark L. Brake and Neil Hook.

London : Macmillan, 2008.

iv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.