Titlebook: All the Wonder that Would Be; Exploring Past Notio Stephen Webb Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 History of Science Fict

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Bravura

2197-1188 their day.Shows how ideas popularized in SF subsequently in.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 future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone fore

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Antigravity,in and Jay Williams. To give just one example, consider Sally Ride. The first American woman in space was once asked whether any books were important to her as a child. She answered: ‘There was that all-time classic ..’ It’s not too fanciful to suppose that this children’s novel inspired her to become an astronaut.

Uncultured

,Second-Order Logic and Fagin’s Theorem,nsport? Authors who wanted to tell more local tales of the future still needed technology to get their protagonists from A to B as quickly as possible, just as earlier generations of storytellers used flying carpets and capricious genies to move their heroes, and stories, along.

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Recency Frequency and Monetary Model,iment with activities traditionally forbidden by society—he decides to ‘play God’. Subsequent mad scientists might be of the certifiably insane, evil genius, or humorously eccentric variety—but the hubris of Victor Frankenstein set the pattern (Fig. 11.1).

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Aliens, isn’t—but even if it were then it would have reason to be proud of its concern. The existence or otherwise of extraterrestrial intelligence is surely a matter of profound philosophical and scientific interest.