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Choi, Eric |
Just Like Being There |
I12390 |
2022 |
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Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee |
Final frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India |
026875 |
2020 |
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May, Andrew |
Pseudoscience and Science Fiction |
I10038 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Villata, Massimo |
The Dark Arrow of Time |
I09905 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Broderick, Damien |
The Time Machine Hypothesis |
I09470 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Webb, Stephen |
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales |
I08568 |
2019 |
eBook |
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Lakshmichand Jain (tr.) |
Wah lambi khamoshi (Hindi) |
E01420 |
1999 |
Book |
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| 8 |
Kailash Kabir (comp.) |
Vijay dan detha rachna sanchayan (Hindi) |
E01421 |
2009 |
Book |
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Vandana Atre (tr.) |
Slumdog millionaire (Marathi) |
E01408 |
2005 |
Book |
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| 10 |
Taslima Nasrin |
Lajja (Marathi) |
E01226 |
2008 |
Book |
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| Title | Just Like Being There : A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories |
| Author(s) | Choi, Eric |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XI, 302 p. 1 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Just Like Being There is the first collection of science fiction stories by award-winning author and aerospace engineer Eric Choi spanning his 25 year writing career. The stories are ???hard??? science fiction in which some element of engineering or science is so central there would be no story if that element were removed. Story topics include space exploration, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cryptography, quantum computing, online privacy, mathematics (statistics), neuroscience, psychology, space medicine, extra-terrestrial intelligence, undersea exploration, commercial aviation, and the history of science. A special feature of the book is that each story is followed by an "Afterword" that explains the underlying engineering or science. This collection will entertain and inform all aficionados of science and science fiction |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030916053 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. ASTRONAUTICS
3. ASTRONOMY
4. Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. FICTION
8. Fiction Literature
9. Outer space???Exploration
10. Space Exploration and Astronautics
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| Title | Final frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India |
| Author(s) | Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee |
| Publication | Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2020. |
| Description | xi, 192p. |
| Series | (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies) |
| Abstract Note | his is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science fiction writers, the policies of scientific and technological development in independent India, and the political strategy of non-alignment advocated by India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who proposed that Third World nations should maintain an equal distance between Washington and Moscow. Such a perspective reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian science fiction, as well as the critical role played by the genre in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-political developments to those that dominate our lives now. |
| ISBN,Price | 9781789620283 : £ 75.00(HB) |
| Classification | 82-31
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| Keyword(s) | 1. FICTION
2. SCIENCE FICTION
3. TECHNO-SCIENCE
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| Title | Pseudoscience and Science Fiction |
| Author(s) | May, Andrew |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | X, 181 p. 45 illus., 28 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity ??? are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with academic science, beyond the superficial trappings of jargon and subject matter. The most obvious difference between the two is that pseudoscience is presented as fact, not fiction. Yet like SF, and unlike real science, pseudoscience is driven by a desire to please an audience ??? in this case, people who ???want to believe???. This has led to significant cross-fertilization between the two disciplines. SF authors often draw on ???real??? pseudoscientific theories to add verisimilitude to their stories, while on other occasions pseudoscience takes its cue from SF ??? the symbiotic relationship between ufology and Hollywood being a prime example of this. This engagingly written, well researched and richly illustrated text explores a wide range of intriguing similarities and differences between pseudoscience and the fictional science found in SF. Andrew May has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in astrophysics from Manchester University. After many years in academia and the private sector, he now works as a freelance writer and scientific consultant. He has written pocket biographies of Newton and Einstein, as well as contributing to a number of popular science books. He has a lifelong interest in science fiction, and has had several articles published in Fortean Times magazine |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319426051 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. FICTION
5. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
6. PHYSICS
7. Popular Science in Astronomy
8. Popular Science in Physics
9. Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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| Title | The Dark Arrow of Time : A Scientific Novel |
| Author(s) | Villata, Massimo |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | V, 163 p. 1 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This riveting scientific novel combines adventure, love, suspense, magic, pathos, and mystery in a carefully woven plot that is full of unexpected twists and turns. The author is an astrophysicist who has developed an alternative theory, which holds that traveling in time is possible. Time is, in fact, the real protagonist of the novel and of the intrigue surrounding the attempt to seize the secret of Time???s other arrow, the dark arrow normally hidden from us, which points back at our past. The underlying premise is that antimatter is nothing more than common matter moving backwards in time. The justification for this interpretation has been with us for some time, ???hiding in plain sight??? within Maxwell???s equations, the Lorentz transformations, the CPT theorem of relativistic quantum mechanics, and Feynman diagrams. While the science underlying the narrative is explained whenever necessary, sometimes with the aid of simple mathematical formulas, these scientific asides account for only a small part of the book, which will appeal to a wide audience, including readers who are far from being science buffs |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319674865 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. FICTION
6. PHYSICS
7. Popular Science in Physics
8. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
9. SPACE SCIENCES
10. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The Time Machine Hypothesis : Extreme Science Meets Science Fiction |
| Author(s) | Broderick, Damien |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XIII, 243 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Every age has characteristic inventions that change the world. In the 19th century it was the steam engine and the train. For the 20th, electric and gasoline power, aircraft, nuclear weapons, even ventures into space. Today, the planet is awash with electronic business, chatter and virtual-reality entertainment so brilliant that the division between real and simulated is hard to discern. But one new idea from the 19th century has failed, so far, to enter reality???time travel, using machines to turn the time dimension into a two-way highway. Will it come true, as foreseen in science fiction? Might we expect visits to and from the future, sooner than from space? That is the Time Machine Hypothesis, examined here by futurist Damien Broderick, an award-winning writer and theorist of the genre of the future. Broderick homes in on the topic through the lens of science as well as fiction, exploring some fifty different time-travel scenarios and conundrums found in the science fiction literature and film |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030161781 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. FICTION
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. LITERATURE
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. PHYSICS
8. Popular Science in Literature
9. Popular Science in Physics
10. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales |
| Author(s) | Webb, Stephen |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2019. |
| Description | XIII, 305 p. 22 illus., 14 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories ??? all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers ??? dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding the story???s main theme and provide the reader with suggestions for further reading. Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe - The Cosmological Distance Ladder (1999) as well as several popular science books, among them Out of this World - Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics in 2004, New Eyes on the Universe - Twelve Cosmic Mysteries and the Tools We Need to Solve Them in 2012, the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life in 2015, All the Wonder that Would Be - Exploring Past Notions of the Future in 2017, also published as part of Springer???s Science and Fiction series, as well as recently, Clash of Symbols - A ride through the riches of glyphs. His 2018 TED talk on aliens has to date been watched more than 2.33 million times |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030031954 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. FICTION
5. LITERATURE
6. PHYSICS
7. Popular Science in Literature
8. Popular Science in Physics
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