Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War - Couverture souple

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May, Andrew

 
9783319898292: Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War
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ISBN 10 : 3319898299 ISBN 13 : 9783319898292
Editeur : Springer, 2018

Synopsis

The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, readers of science fiction (SF) had seen it all before.

Sometimes reality lived up to the SF vision, at other times it didn’t. The hydrogen bomb was as terrifyingly destructive as anything in fiction, while real-world lasers didn't come close to the promise of the classic SF ray gun. Nevertheless, when the scientific Cold War culminated in the Strategic Defence Initiative of the 1980s, it was so science-fictional in its aspirations that the media dubbed it “Star Wars”.

This entertaining account, offering a plethora of little known facts and insights from previously classified military projects, shows how the real-world science of the Cold War followed in the footsteps of SF – and how the two together changed our perception of both science and scientists, and paved the way to the world we live in today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew May obtained a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Manchester in 1982 and is an experienced and versatile professional, with a career spanning academia, government and private industry. Since the start of 2011 he has been working as a freelance writer and defence consultant. He has a wide range of interests and has written both authoritatively and entertainingly on the physical sciences, military technology, British history, science fiction, New Age beliefs and the paranormal.
He has recently published Pseudoscience and Science Fiction (2017) and The Telescopic Tourist's Guide to the Moon (2017) with Springer.

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Éditeur
Springer
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3319898299
ISBN 13 
9783319898292
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
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