04668nam 22005775 450 991033787560332120251116211738.03-030-03195-010.1007/978-3-030-03195-4(CKB)4100000007389618(MiAaPQ)EBC5630582(DE-He213)978-3-030-03195-4(PPN)233800735(EXLCZ)99410000000738961820190107d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNew Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales /by Stephen Webb1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2019.1 online resource (309 pages)Science and Fiction,2197-11883-030-03194-2 Life ... but not as we know It -- The terror of Blue John Gap / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Transmogrification The Voice in the Night / William Hope Hodgsome -- Pandemic -- The Scarlet Plague / Jack London-- Life on Mars -- A Martian Odyssey / Stanley G. Weinbaum -- Artificial Intelligence -- Moxon's Master / Ambrose Bierce -- Attractive Androids -- The Sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Big Data -- The Universal Library / Kurd Lasswitz -- Faster Than Light Travel -- The Tacypomp: A mathematical demonstration / E.P. Mitchell -- Antigravity -- A Tale of Negative Gravity / Frank R. Stockton -- Matter Transmission -- Prof. Vehr's Electrical Experiment / Robert Duncan Milne -- The Sub-microscopic World -- The Diamond Lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- Impact Events -- The Star / H.G. Wells.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.Science and Fiction,2197-1188PhysicsLiteratureFictionArtificial intelligencePopular Science in Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q29000Popular Science in Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q39000Fictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Artificial Intelligencehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I21000Physics.Literature.Fiction.Artificial intelligence.Popular Science in Physics.Popular Science in Literature.Fiction.Artificial Intelligence.809.38762Webb Stephenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut62569BOOK9910337875603321New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales1904828UNINA