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Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : IND:39000002258940
Thirty-six science fiction stories contain brain-teasing puzzles for the reader to solve.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781470451783
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.
Author : Richard Freeborn
Publisher : Richard Freeborn
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
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
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780415974608
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Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : MAA Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Mathematical recreations
ISBN : UOM:49015001135327
"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.
Author : Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195032721
Presents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.
Author : Tim Dedopulos
Publisher : Welbeck Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1787394883
More than 100 enigmas, riddles and conundrums, all taking inspiration from the extraordinary stories and vivid worlds of five science fiction masters.
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810849380
This reference tracks the development of speculative fiction influenced by the advancement of science and the idea of progress from the eighteenth century to the present day. The major authors and publications of the genre and significant subgenres are covered. Additionally there are entries on fields of science and technology which have been particularly prolific in provoking such speculation. The list of acronyms and abbreviations, the chronology covering the literature from the 1700s through the present, the introductory essay, and the dictionary entries provide science fiction novices and enthusiasts as well as serious writers and critics with a wonderful foundation for understanding the realm of science fiction literature. The extensive bibliography that includes books, journals, fanzines, and websites demonstrates that science fiction literature commands a massive following.
Author : Miles John Breuer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803215870
A compilation of the best work of the author, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, includes his first publication, "The Man with the Strange Head," his dystopian novel Paradise and Iron, stories, the essay "The Future of Scientification," a critical statement of his genre, and some of his letters. Original.
Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846310034
This third volume in Mike Ashley's four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods for the science-fiction magazines. Not only were they struggling to survive within the economic climate, they also had to cope with the death of the father of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr., while facing new and potentially threatening opposition. The market for science fiction diversified as never before, with the growth in new anthologies, the emergence of semi-professional magazines, the explosion of science fiction in college, the start of role-playing gaming magazines, underground and adult comics and, with the success of Star Wars, media magazines. This volume explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this, from the
Author : Angelique Fawns
Publisher : Angelique Fawns
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781777507022
Are you trying to sell short stories to the speculative fiction market? This Guide has the INSIDE SCOOP on paying magazines, ezines and podcasts. Learn what editors are buying, and what they’re looking for. Read about more than 65 paying markets. How long will it take them to get back to you? Which editors give helpful advice? Understand the market. Read REAL rejection letters.
Author : Paul J. Nahin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319488646
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.
Author : Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819569684
This critical anthology presents a multifaceted look at one of the most original and influential voices in both science fiction and feminism. Best known for her groundbreaking feminist sci-fi novel The Female Man (1975), Joanna Russ has produced an important and wide-ranging body of fiction and essays. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women’s Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction’s most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. In this volume, a diverse range of scholars examine every aspect of Russ’s body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first section gives readers a contextual overview of Russ’s works, including discussions of Russ’s role in the creation of a feminist science fiction tradition. The second section offers detailed analyses of some of Russ’s writing. Contributors include: Andrew M. Butler, Brian Charles Clark, Samuel R. Delany, Edward James, Sandra Lindow, Keridwen Luis, Paul March-Russell, Helen Merrick, Dianne Newell, Graham Sleight, Jenéa Tallentire, Jason Vest, Sherryl Vint, Pat Wheeler, Tess Williams, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.
Author : Jeffrey M. Elliot
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780893702373
Jeffrey M. Elliot interviews five writers of science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, A. E. van Vogt, Poul Anderson, and Robert Silverberg. With an introduction by Richard A. Lupoff.
Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470797013
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. This Companion conveys the scale and variety of science fiction. Shows how science fiction has been used as a means of debating cultural issues. Essays by an international range of scholars discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers. Addresses general topics, such as the history and origins of the genre, its engagement with science and gender, and national variations of science fiction around the English-speaking world. Maps out connections between science fiction, television, the cinema, virtual reality technology, and other aspects of the culture. Includes a section focusing on major figures, such as H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Guin. Offers close readings of particular novels, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.