Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thirty-six science fiction stories contain brain-teasing puzzles for the reader to solve.
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Mathematical Puzzle Tales
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2020-04-06
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1470451786
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Martin Gardner is widely known for his writing on recreational mathematics, not least for the myriad problems he has devised over some 25 years for Scientific American. In this book are 36 of his best brainteasers. These are not simply cunning puzzles, but serve to illustrate the art of the mathematician as problem solver, and their solution draws on ideas from topology, probability, number theory, logic and beyond. Fully worked answers are given, which, in turn, lead to additional problems for the reader. For anybody who likes to solve mathematical problems, this book will be both entertaining and a challenge.
Tales From the Puzzle Store
Author: Richard Freeborn
Publisher: Richard Freeborn
Published:
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the spirit of classic science fiction, Tales from the Puzzle Store takes you to places and times both strange and unexpected. Mac’s career concentrated on absolutes. What he could see, feel and touch. Without his help, Mac’s store rescues those who need help, leaving him to explain the unexplainable. When life upends you, and even when it doesn’t, take a trip to the Puzzle Store. Browse the shelves and see if a puzzle picks you, just as it does in the five original stories first published in this collection. The Tolling Bell The Turbulent Priest The Pirate Puzzle A Woman Who Dared Pieces of Silver Tales from the Puzzle Store ensures you'll never look at jigsaw puzzles the same way again
Riddles of the Sphinx
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: MAA Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Solving these riddles is not simply a matter of logic and calculation, though these play a role. Luck and inspiration are factors as well, so beginners and experts alike may profitably exercise their wits on Gardner's problems, whose subjects range from geometry to word play to questions relating to physics and geology. We guarantee that you will solve some of these riddles, be stumped by others, and be amused by almost all of the stories and settings that Gardner has devised to raise these questions." --Back cover.
Science Fact and Science Fiction
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-06
Total Pages: 756
ISBN-13: 1135923744
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
Science Fiction
Author: Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1983-09-29
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780195032727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.
Time Machine Tales
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-24
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 3319488643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing about time travel is, today, a respectable business. It hasn’t always been so. After all, time travel, prima facie, appears to violate a fundamental law of nature; every effect has a cause, with the cause occurring before the effect. Time travel to the past, however, seems to allow, indeed to demand, backwards causation, with an effect (the time traveler emerging into the past as he exits from his time machine) occurring before its cause (the time traveler pushing the start button on his machine’s control panel to start his trip backward through time). Time Machine Tales includes new discussions of the advances by physicists and philosophers that have appeared since the publication of TIME MACHINES in 1999, examples of which are the chapters on time travel paradoxes. Those chapters have been brought up-to-date with the latest philosophical thinking on the paradoxes.
The Science Fiction Puzzle Book
Author: Tim Dedopulos
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing
Published: 2020-10-15
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781787394889
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 100 enigmas, riddles and conundrums, all taking inspiration from the extraordinary stories and vivid worlds of five science fiction masters.
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
Author: George Mann
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of short fiction and novellas showcases the work of such popular science fiction writers as Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, and John Meaney.
Look to Windward
Author: Iain Banks
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 0743421922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eight hundred years after the most horrific battle of the Idiran war, light from its world-destroying detonations is about to reach the Masaq Orbital, home to the Culture. Major Quilan has supposedly come to take the exiled Composer Ziller back to their war-ravaged home world, Chel. But despite the major's civilized veneer, his true mission may be the death and destruction of an entire civilization.
