Editors:
- Authored by a new generation of scientist-writers following in the footsteps of classic science fiction authors
- Brings together science and fiction directly from the frontiers of active research
- Selected and edited by Mike Brotherton, astronomy professor, established SciFi novelist and member of the series advisory board
- Each story is followed by a short summary of the real underlying science
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science.
Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people who do science and love science best are scientists. Scientists like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Fred Hoyle wrote some of the legendary tales of golden age science fiction. Today there is a new generation of scientists writing science fiction informed with the expertise of their fields, from astrophysics to computer science, biochemistry to rocket science, quantum physics to genetics, speculating about what is possible in our universe. Here lies the sense of wonder only science can deliver. All the stories in this volume are supplemented by afterwords commenting on the science underlying each story.
Reviews
“Here’s another one for SI readers in general and Analog readers in particular: Fourteen stories by writers who are also working scientists or have extensive scientific experience. … This book would be another perfect gift for any Analog reader.” (Analog Science Fiction & Fact, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. 3905, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
Michael Brotherton
About the editor
Mike Brotherton is a professor of astronomy from the University of Wyoming who specializes in observational studies of quasars, enigmatic objects powered by supermassive black holes. He is also the author of the well-reviewed hard science fiction novels Star Dragon and Spider Star from Tor books, and founder of the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers. He is a member of the advisory board of Springer's Science Fiction book series.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science Fiction by Scientists
Book Subtitle: An Anthology of Short Stories
Editors: Michael Brotherton
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41102-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41101-9Published: 22 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41102-6Published: 15 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 214
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Biotechnology, Electronics