James Cameron's Avatar is the biggest movie of all time. Such has been its effect on audiences that some have reported begin depressed at having to leave the vividly realised setting of Pandora to return to the real world. In the Science of Avatar, bestselling science-fiction author Stephen Baxter examines James Cameron's epic. Over twelve years, the Director created richly imagined world that had its roots in real scientific discovery. From journeys into deep space to anti-gravity unobtanium, from Pandora's extraordinary flora and fauna to transferring consciousness, Baxter reveals that we are closer to world of Avatar than we know. Stephen Baxter is the master of what-if?' science fiction. In the Science of Avatar he's written a book that will appeal to fans of both science-fiction and popular science. And a book that provides a glimmer of hope to those poor film-fans bemoaning their return to the earth after time spent on Pandora.
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The Science behind the biggest movie in history explored by one of the world's leading science fiction writers
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Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Northumberland with his wife.
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To be honest this is a book I've waited quite some time for as it originally appeared on my radar a couple of years ago. Sadly due to constraints its taken its time to come to the fore but now its released I was left wondering if the wait was worth it or whether its more of a cash in than anything else.
What this book does more than anything else is explore the believability of Cameron's world and whilst at times it has problems with the creation, what Stephen does is bring the complexities of world building to the reader whilst picking out what does and doesn't work on a basic level. Its interesting, its presented in an easy to understand manner and of course for me as a reader I love to find out what has real possibilities. Likewise if you are a writer, setting out to create your own world, this is a useful guide to help you work out what does and doesn't work for you to help make your own world ideal fantasy/sci-fi fodder.
All in a solid book and whilst it won't appeal to everyone, it's a great title to own if you're interested in believability as well as how you'd go about constructing something special. Great stuff.
What this book does more than anything else is explore the believability of Cameron's world and whilst at times it has problems with the creation, what Stephen does is bring the complexities of world building to the reader whilst picking out what does and doesn't work on a basic level. Its interesting, its presented in an easy to understand manner and of course for me as a reader I love to find out what has real possibilities. Likewise if you are a writer, setting out to create your own world, this is a useful guide to help you work out what does and doesn't work for you to help make your own world ideal fantasy/sci-fi fodder.
All in a solid book and whilst it won't appeal to everyone, it's a great title to own if you're interested in believability as well as how you'd go about constructing something special. Great stuff.
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Astronautics PhD. Stephen Baxter discusses the creation of possible worlds in science fiction, with an environment, a flora and fauna, and sometimes intelligent life as in the case of Avatar's Pandora. A serious essay, just like his excellent previous "Deep Future". This is not only for the fans of Avatar but for those of us who are curious about what some of the newly discovered inhabitable worlds around us may be like, and what difficulties may await Earth developpers and terraformers.
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