The Science in Science Fiction by Peter Nicholls

The Science in Science Fiction

Does science fiction foretell the future?

Edited by Peter Nicholls

Michael Joseph, 1982, [First Edition], ISBN 0718121872, colour and black and white photographs, hardcover, dustjacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription to front endpaper, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping (see photographs)

“Starships, aliens, cyborgs, clones, space cities, time travel, hyperspace, cryonic suspended animation, matter transmitters, telekinesis – these are the paraphernalia of science fiction.  What does this jargon mean?  Which of the wonders of science fiction are firmly grounded in scientific fact, and which are mere dreams?
Award winning writer Peter Nicholls shows us where science is becoming more extraordinary than fiction and where what appears to be fiction is firmly based on scientific fact and prediction.  Some conventional science fiction concepts, like the building of huge starships for the exploration of deep space, will take many more decades to become a reality while others, like human cloning, are almost before us.  Time travel was long thought to be a theoretical impossibility, but such extraordinary discoveries have been taking place in physics that who knows what possibilities may be opened up in future?”