Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
by Mark Brake
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Since its emergence in the seventeenthcentury, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines explores how this fascinating symbiosis shapes what we see, do, and dream. From Johannes Kepler'sSomnium to Arthur C. Clarke's2001, science fiction has emerged as a mode of thinking, complementary to the show more scientific method. Science fiction's field of interest is the gap between the new worlds uncovered by experimentation and exploration, and the fantastic worlds of the imagination. Its proponents find drama in the tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Its readers, many of them scientists and politicians, find inspiration in the contrast between the ordinary and the extraordinary. Brake and Hook'sDifferent Engines is a unique, provocative and compelling account of science fiction as the arbiter of progress. show lessTags
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Mark Brake developed the world's first science and science fiction degree in 1999 and launched the world's first astrobiology degree in 2005. He's communicated science through film, television, print, and radio on five continents, including for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, and Sky Cinema. Mark also tours show more Europe with Science of Doctor Who, Science of Star Wary, and Science of Superheroes road shows. show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 809.38762 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery and Speculative Fiction Speculative Fiction Science Fiction
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- PN3433.6 .B73 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Prose. Prose fiction Special kinds of fiction. Fiction genres
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