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- Introduces and reprints 12 classic SF short stories (1858-1934)
- Examines the latest thinking surrounding each story’s main theme
- Provides many suggestions for further reading
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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DCQE University of Portsmouth, Lee-on-the-Solent, UK
Stephen Webb
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales
Authors: Stephen Webb
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03195-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03194-7Published: 23 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03195-4Published: 07 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Physics, Popular Science in Literature, Fiction, Artificial Intelligence