2 Ben Bova Book Bundle : Analog Science Fact Reader & Forward in Time
$ 9.5
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2 Ben Bova Book Bundle : Analog Science Fact Reader & Forward in Time. The stories in this collection represent several different futures, reports from the tomorrowland that lie ahead of the human race. Each subsequent story takes place further ahead in the future than the previous one. Analog Science Fact Reader: This is a unique book. Long recognized as the world's leading science fiction magazine, Analog Science Fiction-Science Fact also publishes factual articles about scientific research in each of its monthly issues factual science articles with a particularly future-oriented flavor to them. Twelve of these stimulating, often controversial, articles are collected here, published in book form for the first time. Combining the imagination and forward-looking insights of science fiction with the solid understanding of science and engineering, they offer twelve glimpses of how modern research and development will change our lives. For example: G. Harry Stine's "Third Industrial Revolution" tells how much of our civilization's industrial capacity can be moved entirely off our planet and placed in orbit (thus solving the pollution problem). William Escher explains how a hydrogen-oxygen automobile can use an inexhaustible fuel supply-water! while producing no harmful emis-sions. Thomas Easton shows how robots are already being designed, and how "man-amplifying" machines can allow you to lift quarter-ton loads with just one hand. Forward in Time: Here are ten stories of the future by the editor of Analog Science Fiction-Science Fact magazine; ten glimpses of tomorrows that are different, disturbing, and very real. The stories in this collection represent several different futures, reports from the tomorrowland that lie ahead of the human race. The first story could happen next week-or perhaps it has already happened. Each subsequent story takes place further ahead in the future than the previous one. The time scale is logarithmic: the jumps in time grow larger between each story as they spin further and further outward in time and space-out to the very end of the universe itself-and to the ultimate truth of human experience.
