Different engines
Subtitle: how science drives fiction and fiction drives science
By: Mark L. Brake and Neil Hook
Contributors: Hook, Neil
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780230019805
Subjects: Science fiction -- History and criticism; Science in literature; Science and civilization; Science in popular culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: A plurality of habitable worlds : the age of discovery; title: Remembrance of things to come : the mechanical age; title: Pulp fiction : the astounding age; title: Cold war and heat death : the atomic age; title: Stranger in a strange land : the new age; title: Information wants to be free : the computer age; title: The Frankenstein century  : the age of biology