Schrödinger's kitten
Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781561465422
Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781561465422
Author : Jan Ivar Korsbakken
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Light
ISBN : 9780297815198
Gribbin presents the recent dramatic improvements in experimental techniques that have enabled physicists to formulate and test new theories about the nature of light. He describes these theories not in terms of hard-to-imagine entities like spinning subnuclear particles, but in terms of the fate of two small cats separated at a tender age and carried to opposite sides of the universe.
Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1780225997
Accessible exploration of one of the most exciting areas of scientific inquiry - the nature of light. Following on from his bestseller, SCHRODINGER'S CAT, John Gribbin presents the recent dramatic improvements in experimental techniques that have enabled physicists to formulate and test new theories about the nature of light. He describes these theories not in terms of hard-to-imagine entities like spinning subnuclear particles, but in terms of the fate of two small cats, separated at a tender age and carried to opposite ends of the universe. In this way Gribbin introduces the reader to such new developments as quantum cryptography, through which unbreakable codes can be made, and goes on to possible future developments such as the idea that the ¿entanglement' of quantum particles could be a way to build a STAR TREK style teleportation machine.
Author : James E. Gunn
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810846708
Now in Paperback The Road to Science Fiction is a six-volume anthology that covers the development of this genre from its earliest prototypes to the current day. Created originally to provide anthologies for use in classrooms in the late 1970s, these volumes became mass-market sellers. Between an ancient Roman's trip to the moon and the fantastic tales of H.G. Wells lies a journey through time and space and an awesome evolution in scientific thinking. From Gilgamesh's search for immortality to Edgar Allan Poe's balloon trip in the year 2848 these and other key works are gathered together for the first time in one anthology, complete with revealing commentary on the authors, their eras, and the role each played in establishing what we today recognize as science fiction. Volume 4 From Here to Forever covers the period from 1950-1992, illustrating how science fiction can be as concerned with language and character as much as traditional fiction and anything in the mainstream. Includes stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Matheson, C. M. Kornbluth, Jack Vance, and Pamela Zoline.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1990-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146682946X
Reaching from the sky to the edge of the world, science fiction is the literature of the imagination, and this year's collection gathers into one volume the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent fiction of 1989. This year's collection features works by many of science fiction's greatest writers--both veterans and newcomers--including: Neal Barret, Jr., Gregory Benford, Alan Brennert, John Crowley, Avram Davidson, Alexander Jablokov, Janet Kagan, William King, Kathe Koja, Nancy Kress, Megan Lindholm, Judith Moffett, Steven Popkes, Mike Resnick, Robert Sampson, Charles Sheffield, Lucius Shepard, Robert Silverberg, S.P. Somtow, Brian Stableford, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, John Varley, Connie Willis.
Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080951205X
Tom Easton has served as the monthly book review columnist for Analog Science Fiction for almost three decades, having contributed during that span many hundreds of columns and over a million words of penetrating criticism on the best literature that science fiction has to offer. His reviews have been celebrated for their wit, humor, readability, knowledge, and incisiveness. His love of literature, particularly fantastic literature, is everywhere evident in his essays. Easton has ever been willing to cover small presses, obscure authors, and unusual publications, being the only major critic in the field to do so on a regular basis. He seems to delight in finding the rare gem among the backwaters of the publishing field. "A reviewer's job," he says, "is not to judge books for the ages, but to tell readers enough about a book to give them some idea of whether they would enjoy it." And this he does admirably, whether he's discussing the works of the great writers in the field, or touching upon the least amongst them. This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library." No one does it better, and no other guide provides such lengthy or discerning commentary on the best SF works of recent times. Complete with Introduction and detailed Index.
Author : Michael Kurland
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312325954
For over a century, readers have thrilled to the exploits of Sherlock Holmes through the tales narrated by his sidekick and official chronicler, Dr. John Watson. But do Dr. Watson's tales really tell the true story of the great detective? In this collection of thirteen original tales, each told by a side character in the original canon, ranging from the famous (Irene Adler, Professor James Moriarty, and Mycroft Holmes) to the decidedly minor (Billy the page boy, Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars, and both Mrs. Watsons), readers finally get to hear another side of the legend. From what Inspector Lestrade really thought of Holmes to the untold tale of his encounter with Dr. Fu Manchu, from the bitter reminiscences of him by C. Auguste Dupin to the thoughts of his longtime landlady Mrs. Hudson, the totality of the veil of mystery over the legend that is Sherlock Holmes is at last removed. With stories from Barbara Hambly, Cara Black, Peter Tremayne, and Michael Kurland, among others, My Sherlock Holmes is a unique and compelling entry into the literature of the world's most famous detective.
Author : Vonda N. McIntyre
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2004-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110121256X
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Author : Mike Resnick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1440622612
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA