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

  • Brake, Mark.
Date:
2008
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Macmillan, 2008.

Physical description

iv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    CU /BRA
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ISBN

  • 9780230019805
  • 0230019803