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| Difference Engines. How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science | Buy a book...
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| Author(s): | M. L. Brake and N. Hook |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 9780230019805 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 265pp | |
| Price: | £16.99 |
| Review Date: | 11 December 2007 |
| Review: | In 1609 Kepler published the world’s first piece of science fiction. Since then science fiction and science have had a symbiotic relationship – forcing fiction to accept the limits of reality and science to keep a check on its promises. Here the two authors – a professor of science communication and a lecturer on science fiction (and Anglican priest) join forces to show how science fiction complements science method. They look at the worlds uncovered by experimentation and exploration and the fantasy world grown of imagination. The book provides an interesting view of science fiction as the arbiter of progress |