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By George Mann

ISBN-10: 1841191779

ISBN-13: 9781841191775

This encyclopedia is the main updated, concise, transparent and reasonable consultant to all facets of technological know-how fiction, from its history to commonly used topics and units, from authors (established and new) to motion pictures. technological know-how fiction has advanced into the most well known, state of the art and interesting fiction geners, with a proliferation of contemporary and vintage authors, issues and concepts, videos, television sequence and awards. prepared in an A-Z structure, and that includes a finished index and cross-referencing method, The big Encyclopedia of technological know-how Fiction can also be the main obtainable and straightforward to take advantage of encyclopedia of its style at the moment on hand.

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This was to become one of the key concerns of SF in the 1990s: the quest for the means of transcendence through science and technology rather than through spirituality. Allusions would no longer do, however, and writers wanted to know exactly how their characters would make this leap into the next life. New theories of quantum physics also meant the serious possibility of space travel. SF was beginning to return to the dreams of its youth. This time, though, there was one fundamental difference.

The Xeelee stories were collected together, with amendments, in Vacuum Diagrams (1997), and the novels associated with the sequence are Raft (1991), Timelike Infinity (1992), Flux (1993), Ring (1994) and Reality Dust (2000). These novels contain detailed extrapolations of modern scientific thought and for this reason Baxter has become generally recognized as one of the key forces behind the new wave of radical HARD SF writers, which also includes such authors as PAUL J. McAULEY and GREG EGAN. Indeed, this insistence on including genuine scientific speculation in his work has led to Baxter inheriting the title of 'heirapparent' to ARTHUR C.

In this way they could later communicate with the living, or, alternatively, become something even greater, 'beyond human'. This was to become one of the key concerns of SF in the 1990s: the quest for the means of transcendence through science and technology rather than through spirituality. Allusions would no longer do, however, and writers wanted to know exactly how their characters would make this leap into the next life. New theories of quantum physics also meant the serious possibility of space travel.

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