Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
Thirty-six science fiction stories contain brain-teasing puzzles for the reader to solve.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1470451786
Martin Gardner is widely known for his writing on recreational mathematics, not least for the myriad problems he has devised over some 25 years for Scientific American. In this book are 36 of his best brainteasers. These are not simply cunning puzzles, but serve to illustrate the art of the mathematician as problem solver, and their solution draws on ideas from topology, probability, number theory, logic and beyond. Fully worked answers are given, which, in turn, lead to additional problems for the reader. For anybody who likes to solve mathematical problems, this book will be both entertaining and a challenge.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : MAA Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
"Solving these riddles is not simply a matter of logic and calculation, though these play a role. Luck and inspiration are factors as well, so beginners and experts alike may profitably exercise their wits on Gardner's problems, whose subjects range from geometry to word play to questions relating to physics and geology. We guarantee that you will solve some of these riddles, be stumped by others, and be amused by almost all of the stories and settings that Gardner has devised to raise these questions." --Back cover.
Author : Richard Freeborn
Publisher : Richard Freeborn
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the spirit of classic science fiction, Tales from the Puzzle Store takes you to places and times both strange and unexpected. Mac’s career concentrated on absolutes. What he could see, feel and touch. Without his help, Mac’s store rescues those who need help, leaving him to explain the unexplainable. When life upends you, and even when it doesn’t, take a trip to the Puzzle Store. Browse the shelves and see if a puzzle picks you, just as it does in the five original stories first published in this collection. The Tolling Bell The Turbulent Priest The Pirate Puzzle A Woman Who Dared Pieces of Silver Tales from the Puzzle Store ensures you'll never look at jigsaw puzzles the same way again
Author : Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1983-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195032727
Presents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.
Author : Tim Dedopulos
Publisher : Welbeck Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781787394889
More than 100 enigmas, riddles and conundrums, all taking inspiration from the extraordinary stories and vivid worlds of five science fiction masters.
Author : Iain Banks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Caste
ISBN : 0743421922
Eight hundred years after the most horrific battle of the Idiran war, light from its world-destroying detonations is about to reach the Masaq Orbital, home to the Culture. Major Quilan has supposedly come to take the exiled Composer Ziller back to their war-ravaged home world, Chel. But despite the major's civilized veneer, his true mission may be the death and destruction of an entire civilization.
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0415974607
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Author : Paul J. Nahin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 2016-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319488643
This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing about time travel is, today, a respectable business. It hasn’t always been so. After all, time travel, prima facie, appears to violate a fundamental law of nature; every effect has a cause, with the cause occurring before the effect. Time travel to the past, however, seems to allow, indeed to demand, backwards causation, with an effect (the time traveler emerging into the past as he exits from his time machine) occurring before its cause (the time traveler pushing the start button on his machine’s control panel to start his trip backward through time). Time Machine Tales includes new discussions of the advances by physicists and philosophers that have appeared since the publication of TIME MACHINES in 1999, examples of which are the chapters on time travel paradoxes. Those chapters have been brought up-to-date with the latest philosophical thinking on the paradoxes.
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810849389
This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. The major authors and publications of the genre and significant subgenres are covered. Additionally there are entries on fields of science and technology which have been particularly prolific in provoking such speculation. The list of acronyms and abbreviations, the chronology covering the literature from the 1700s through the present, the introductory essay, and the dictionary entries provide science fiction novices and enthusiasts as well as serious writers and critics with a wonderful foundation for understanding the realm of science fiction literature. The extensive bibliography that includes books, journals, fanzines, and websites demonstrates that science fiction literature commands a massive following.
