When It Changed by Sara Maitland

When It Changed by Sara Maitland

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When It Changed is an attempt to put authors and scientists back in touch with each other, to re-introduce research ideas with literary concerns, and to re-forge the alloy that once made SF great. Part of Comma's interdisciplinary Science-into-Fiction series, pairing authors with scientists and researchers to produce cutting-edge science fiction.

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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
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