When It Changed by Sara Maitland
Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence. Through the use of diverse, credible, and contemporary research areasfrom Planck length to plankton and virtual conversations between Wittgenstein and Turing to future civilizations torn asunder by differences over particle physicsthese stories reinstate the furnace of scientific endeavor. Comprised of researchfrom practicing scientistsat Manchester University and the stories of established authorsincluding Frank Cottrell Boyce, Geoff Ryman, Patricia Dunscker, and Sara Maitlandthis anthology attempts to take science fiction into new, scientifically realistic fieldswhile explaining the theory and technology behind each story.
Geoff Ryman is an author and editor whose work includes Air, Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter, and Tesseracts Nine. He is the founder of the Mundane Science Fiction movement and edited the Mundane Special Issue of Interzone magazine in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905583195 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905583192 |
| Title | When It Changed |
| Author | Sara Maitland |
| Series | Science-Into-Fiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Comma Press |
| Year published | 2009-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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