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New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales - Science and Fiction Stephen Webb 2019 edition
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New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales - Science and Fiction
Stephen Webb
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.
305 pages, 22 Tables, color; 14 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 305 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 23, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9783030031947 |
| Publishers | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Pages | 305 |
| Dimensions | 233 × 156 × 17 mm · 506 g |
| Language | French |
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