Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science

Andrew May

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• People are used to seeing "fake physics" in science fiction - concepts like faster-than-light travel, antigravity and time travel to name a few. The f... Lees meer

Incident on Simpac III

Doug Brugge

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• A few hundred years into the future, a wave of space colonization follows a disastrous earlier attempt to inhabit nearby extrasolar planets. It is gui... Lees meer

Small Doses of the Future

Brad Aiken

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Like many fields of science, the future of medicine is frequently predicted by the science fiction writers of today, very much as many of today's medi... Lees meer

Europa's Lost Expedition

Michael Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• This classically styled, chilling murder mystery about an expedition under the ice of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, backed up by the latest scientific ... Lees meer

The Unedited

Pernille Rørth

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• This novel is set in the near future, where human genome editing has become routine. First adopted to fight a lethal virus, it is now widely used to p... Lees meer

The Hunt for Foxp5

Wallace Kaufman, David Deamer

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Preface.- Part I: The Novel.- Part II: The Science behind the fiction. Lees meer

Shaken, Not Stirred!

Metin Tolan, Joachim Stolze

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• How do James Bond's X-ray glasses work, the ones he uses to see whether the lady at the roulette table has a pistol concealed in her underwear? Is it ... Lees meer

Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War

Andrew May

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone w... Lees meer

The Orchid Cage

Herbert W Franke

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• This book is a new English translation of the classic science fiction story written in 1961 by Herbert W. Franke, widely held to be the most important... Lees meer

On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea

Michael Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of t... Lees meer

Beyond Human

Erik Seedhouse

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Beyond Human is an informative and accessible guide for all those interested in the developing sciences of genetic engineering, bio printing and human... Lees meer

Saint Joan of New York

Mark Alpert

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old geni... Lees meer

Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation

Kevin R Grazier, Stephen Cass

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in H... Lees meer

The Caloris Network

Nick Kanas

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• The year is 2130. The first-ever expedition is sent to Mercury to search for the cause of an unknown source of electromagnetic radiation that can dest... Lees meer

Pseudoscience and Science Fiction

Andrew May

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity ... are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to... Lees meer

Alien Encounter

Dirk Schulze-Makuch

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• It has been nearly 100 years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void ... Lees meer

The Hunter

Giancarlo Genta

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• The 24th century: humankind has become a spacefaring civilization, colonizing the solar system and beyond. While no alien forms of life have yet been ... Lees meer

New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales

Stephen Webb

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• 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-kn... Lees meer

All the Wonder That Would Be

Stephen Webb

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast - not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the ... Lees meer

Science Fiction by Scientists

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of rea... Lees meer

Lords of the Ice Moons

Michael Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• What happens with some thing becomes some one ? In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth's power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The surv... Lees meer

Visions of Tomorrow

Stephen Webb

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• This anthology invites readers to revisit twelve timeless stories from visionary authors while pondering the scientific advancements they foreshadowed... Lees meer

Hollyweird Science

Kevin R Grazier, Stephen Cass

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• Lighthearted, quirky, and upbeat, this book explores the portrayal of science and technology on both the big and little screen -- and how Hollywood is... Lees meer

Time Machine Tales

Paul J Nahin

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Fiction
• This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time tra... Lees meer