Contents: The Andromeda strain / Sergio Pistoi -- Virtual reality and man-machine interface in Disclosure and The terminal man / Ray Kurzweil -- Shock to the system / Steven Gulie -- Neanderthals and wendols / Ian Tattersall -- Primate behavior and misbehavior in Michael Crichton's Congo / Dario Maestripieri -- We still can't clone dinosaurs / Sandy Becker -- Crichton travels in time / Joel N. Shurkin --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 SCIHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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Summary: "The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world's favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of Bond, and in Superspy Science Kathryn Harkup explores the full range of 007's exploits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2022
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Summary: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can been read as the ultimate parable of scientific hubris. Victor, "the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017