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Informationen zum Autor Dr Glyn Morgan is the project curator for the `Science Fiction¿ exhibition at the Science Museum, London. He is a former editor of Vector: The Critical Journal of the British Science Fiction Association . He frequently contributes to journals including the Los Angeles Review of Books , Science Fiction Studies Review and European History Quarterly . His publications include Imagining the Unimaginable: The Holocaust in Speculative Fiction and as editor, Sideways in Time: Critical Essays on Alternate History Fiction . Klappentext A compelling, fully illustrated account of the real science behind the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature, and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction by Glyn Morgan People and Machines People as Machines / Machine People, Sherryl Vint In the Loop: Reordering Human¿Technology Relations, Colin Milburn Interview, Ken Liu Travelling the Cosmos Prototyping the Future: Spaceflight as screen spectacle, Richard Dunn Beyond the Solar System, Rachael Livermore Interview, Charlie Jane Anders Communication and Language Communications, Roger Luckhurst A Century of Science Fiction from Around the World, Rachel Cordasco Interview, Vandana Singh Aliens and Alienation Alien Speculation: Science, Fiction and the Future, Amanda Rees Infinite Variation, Glyn Morgan Interview, Tade Thompson Anxieties and Hopes Science Fiction in the Atomic Age, Daniel Cordle Climate in Science Fiction, Caroline Edwards Interview, Kim Stanley Robinson