- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD (1 Sep 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671876864
- ISBN-13: 978-0671876869
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,217,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An intergalactic adventure applies all the theories of modern technology--including antigravity machines, space warps, black holes, time machines, and reactionless drives--and presents fictionalized scenarios depicting their impact.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
As a particle physicist I learned much from this book. When Forward discusses situations about which I know some details he almost always has it right, so I trust him when he discusses situations about which I know little. The short stories that follow the technical chapters are ingenious, although they do not all relate well to the preceding technical chapter. I would like to have had more discussion about the relative probabilities of the various scientific theories yielding useful technology.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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i bought the book purely for its scientific content and have not read the short stories. but the information concerning exotic forms of propulsion and loopholes in modern day physics is very good. another good book relating to this is the starflight handbook by eugene f. mallove & gregory l. matloff.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Although this book is listed as Science Fiction it is notjust a collection of short stories. Dr. Forward puts forth essays on various aspects of SF technology, couching them in fairly easy to understand language. Between the hard science bits are short stories dealing with the previous chapter so you can see how it all fits together. ***Warning*** Don't read this all in one session. I did, and got a headache for my trouble. That much information in such a short time is a real brain stretcher.
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