The science of Avatar
By: by Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780575130951; 9780575130975; 9780575130968
Subjects: Pandora (Imaginary place); Avatar (Motion picture : 2009)
Description: Audiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron's visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na'vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a scientific rationale for much of what we saw on the screen, from the possibility of travel to other worlds, to the life forms seen on screen and the ecological and cybernetic concepts that underpin the 'neural networks' in which the Na'vi and their sacred trees are joined, as well as to the mind-linking to the avatars themselves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.