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Science fiction to science fact: : a modern review of medical devices from star trek

Erika L. Crowley, Author | Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 2020

iiiAbstractSpace medicine is becoming an increasingly relevant field of study due to the growing demand for longer-duration spaceflights, and medical devices could be instrumental inimproving the overall health and wellness of astronauts duri[...]

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Artemis : a novel /

Andy Weir, Author | [S.l.] : Crown Publishers | 2017

Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the Moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime, only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city.

Visions, ventures, escape velocities : a collection of space futures /

Ed. Finn, Editor ; Joey Eschrich, Author | Tempe : Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University | 2017

Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and thrive in radically different kinds of human comm[...]

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From the earth to the moon and round the moon

Jules Verne, Author | North Charleston (United States) : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | 2016

The book is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch three people-the [...]

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson, Author | [S.l.] : Morrow | 2015

For once, nations 'round the world are cooperating; -postapocalypse, they must find a way to assure humanity's survival in outer space. After 5000 years out there somewhere, humans now number three billion, and they're about to launch another da[...]

Carbide tipped pens : seventeen tales of hard science fiction /

Ben Bova, Editor ; Eric Choi, Editor | [S.l.] : Tor | 2014

Presents a collection of hard science fiction tales that examines both the benefits and detriments of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos, and includes tales from Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, and Ja[...]

The Martian

Andy Weir, Author | [S.l.] : Del Rey Books | 2014

The Oxford handbook of science fiction

Rob Latham, Editor | Oxford : Oxford University Press | Oxford handbooks | 2014

"The Handbook begins with a focus on questions of genre, covering topics such as critical history, keywords, narrative, the fantastic, and fandom. A subsequent section on media engages with film, television, comics, architecture, music, video g[...]

Wizards, aliens, and starships : physics and math in fantasy and science fiction /

Charles L. Adler, Author | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | 2014

"From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant and innovative ideas. Yet how plausible are these ideas--for instance, could Mr. Weasley's fly[...]

2312

Kim Stanley Robinson, Author | [S.l.] : Orbit Books | 2012

"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But [...]

The long earth

Terry Pratchett, Author ; Stephen Baxter, Author | [S.l.] : HarperCollins | 2012

"1916: The Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong and the wind in the leaves. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of no-man's-land gone? For that matter, where has Pe[...]

Degrees of freedom

Simon Morden, Author | New York : Orbit | Samuil Petrovich novels | 2011

"The Six Degrees of Petrovitch -- Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to trust Michael will still be sane by the time he does. Maddy and Petrovitc[...]

Equations of life

Simon Morden, Author | New York : Orbit | Samuil Petrovich novels | 2011

Samuil Petrovitch is an anti-social Russian émigré in the overcrowded, decaying urban jungle of the London Metrozone. Going against his customary principle of "don't get involved," Petrovitch surprises himself one day by performing an uncharacte[...]

The islanders

Christopher Priest, Author | London : Gollancz | 2011

"The Dream Archipelago is a vast network of islands. The names of the islands are different depending on who you talk to, their very locations seem to twist and shift. Some islands have been sculpted into vast musical instruments, others are ho[...]

Theories of flight

Simon Morden, Author | New York : Orbit | Samuil Petrovich novels | 2011

Zoo city

Lauren Beukes, Author | Nottingham, UK : Angry Robot | 2011

Zinzi has a talent for finding lost things. Being hired by famously reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum of the criminal underclass. Set in a wildly re-imagined J[...]

Blackout

Connie Willis, Author | New York : Spectra Ballantine Books | 2010

When a time-travel lab suddenly cancels assignments for no apparent reason and switches around everyone's schedules, time-traveling historians Michael, Merope, and Polly find themselves in World War II, facing air raids, blackouts, unexploded bo[...]

Bitter angels

Sarah Zettel, Author | New York (United States) : Spectra/Ballantine Books | 2009

The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies--and constant, creeping decrepitude. But the Guardians, a special-forces branch inside the United World Government for Earth, have deemed Erasmus a "hot spot". Somehow, it is b[...]

Galileo's dream

Kim Stanley Robinson | [S.l.] : Ballantine Books | 2009

The last theorem

Arthur C. Clarke, Author ; Frederik Pohl, Author | New York : Ballentine Books/Del Rey | 2009

When a man with a special gift for mathematics, writes a three-page proof of Pierre de Fermat's last theorem, his achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame, fortune, and unwanted attention, but soon he realizes that everyone [...]

Soyuz S

Frank Hogan | [S.l.] : Lulu inc | 2008

In the evening of the 9th of April, 1997, the space shuttle Destiny is prepared to be launched within the next 17 hours on an ultra-secret spaceflight with Donald S. Robertson, jr. in charge onboard. The seasoned astronaut looks at his bird whil[...]

Nova swing

M. John Harrison, Author | [S.l.] : Bantam | Bantam spectra book | 2007

Winner of the 2007 Clarke award and the 2007 PKD award.

Destiny

Frank Hogan | [S.l.] : Lulu inc | 2006

In the evening of the 9th of April, 1997, the space shuttle Destiny is prepared to be launched within the next 17 hours on an ultra-secret spaceflight with Donald S. Robertson, jr. in charge onboard. The seasoned astronaut looks at his bird whil[...]

Air : (or, Have not have)

Geoff Ryman, Author | New York : St. Martin's Griffin | 2004

When Air, the latest communication technology, finally comes to the remote village of Kizuldah, Karzistan, with disastrous results, Chung Mae struggles to prepare her people for the inevitable changes while preserving their past

Tales of innovation and imagination : selected stories from the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition

David Raitt, Editor ; Barbara Warmbein, Editor ; European Space Agency., Editor | [S.l.] : European Space Agency | ESA SP | 2004

Altered carbon

Richard Morgan | [S.l.] : Orion Publishing | 2003

The hundred billion new-ruble trip : a russian landing on Mars

Saunders B. Kramer Sr. | [S.l.] : Xlibris Corporation | 2003

This novel focuses on a sucessfull journey to the planet Mars by a Russian crew during the opportunity of 2013-2015. During their surface exploration multiple discoveries of a prior visit to Mars by intelligent beings from another star system occur.

Fallen dragon

Peter F. Hamilton | [S.l.] : Pan Books | 2002

Engines of light

Ken Macleod | [S.l.] : Orbit Books | 2002

Terraforming earth

Jack Williamson | [S.l.] : Tor Books | 2001

Jack Williamson, the dean of American science fiction writers, has written some of the most imaginative and exciting speculative fiction published during the nine decades of his extraordinary career. With "Terraforming Earth", this Grand Master [...]

Manifold : space

Stephen Baxter | [S.l.] : Ballantine Books | 2001

The year of 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: a gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transport[...]

Colony

Rob Grant | [S.l.] : Penguin Books | 2000

The light of other days

Clarke Arthur C. ; Stephen Baxter | [S.l.] : HarperCollins | 2000

Hiram Petterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the spee[...]

Mars crossing

Geoffrey A. Landis | [S.l.] : Tor Books | 2000

Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel. By the middle of the 21st century, after decades of setbacks, humanity has finally achieved a manned landing on Mars -only to watch helplessly as the members of the mission perish in a catastrophic[...]

Cradle of Saturn

James P. Hogan | [S.l.] : BAEN | 1999

Among the Saturnian moons, farsighted individuals, working without help or permission from any government, have established a colony. They call themselves the Kronians, after the Greek name of Saturn. Operating without the hidebound restrictions[...]

The martian race

Gregory Benford | [S.l.] : Warner Books | 1999

Two space expeditions--one American, the other Euro-Chinese--race to be the first on Mars and first to return to Earth. Both teams reach the planet, but with disastrous results. The problem now is not who will return to Earth, but if any of them[...]

Return to Mars

Ben Bova | [S.l.] : Hodder & Stoughton | 1999

The trigger

Michael Kube-McDowell ; Arthur Charles Clarke | [S.l.] : HarperCollins | Voyager | 1999

Earth abides

George Rippey Stewart, Author | [S.l.] : Millennium | SF masterworks | 1999

A plague destroys most of humankind. One of the few survivors is Isherwood Williams who on returning from a trip into the wilderness discovers that civilisation has vanished. He and a woman survivor settle down and adopt a very simple lifestyle.[...]

Not the only planet : science fiction travel stories

Damien Broderick, Editor | [S.l.] : Lonely Planet Publications | Lonely Planet journeys | 1998

Like a cyborg and a spaceship, like an explorer and a time machine, travel and science fiction have always gone together. "Not the only planet" is a unique collection of stories about travelling both ends of the space-time continuum by internati[...]

Starfarers

Poul Anderson | [S.l.] : Tom Doherty Associates Book | 1998

When evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers, an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy is planned and an eclectic team of scientist is chosen to make the trip. But because the origin of the alien signals is[...]

3001 : the final odyssey

Arthur Charles Clarke | [S.l.] : Ballantine Books | 1997

Beneath the gated sky

Robert Reed | [S.l.] : Tor | 1997

The stars have vanished. The sky has become an immense mirror reflecting the earth's image back at itself, and just beyond this barrier lie worlds stranger than the human race has ever imagined. Shimmering portlas to these other worlds can be op[...]

Moonwar : book II of the Moonbase Saga

Ben Bova | [S.l.] : Hodder & Stoughton | 1997

The postman

David Brin | [S.l.] : Bantam | Bantam spectra book | 1997

Titan

Stephen Baxter | [S.l.] : HarperCollins | 1997

Vacuum diagrams : stories of the xeelee sequence

Stephen Baxter | [S.l.] : EOS | 1997

Winner of the Philip K. Dick award.

Voyage

Stephen Baxter | [S.l.] : HarperCollins | 1997

Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson | [S.l.] : Bantam Books | 1996

The time ships

Stephen Baxter | [S.l.] : EOS | 1995

Winner of the Philip K. Dick award and the John Campbell Memorial award.