Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives ScienceSince its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines traces the way in which we've imagined the future. |
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The Age of Discovery | 1 |
The Mechanical Age | 35 |
The Astounding Age | 71 |
The Atomic Age | 101 |
The New Age | 144 |
The Computer Age | 178 |
The Age of Biology | 214 |
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