| Description |
ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / John Pascoe -- Introduction / Rex Malik -- The future as history / I.F. Clarke -- Attitudes towards science fiction / John Barter -- Science fact: where it leads / Frank George -- The future is furthur off than you think / Heinz Wolfe -- Inventing new worlds / Harry Harrison -- Inventing new worlds / A.E. Van Vogt -- Computers in the movies / Suzanne Landa -- Interview with Arthur C. Clarke / Rex Malik -- Profits and prophets of space / Pearce Wright -- The brain / Tony Buzan -- Man machine symbiosis / Heinz Wolff -- Science fact: looking forward to the 80s and 90s / Earl C. Joseph -- Computer technology as seen from 2979 AD / Rex Malik |
| Analysis |
Science fiction related to scientific knowledge |
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Scientific knowledge related to science fiction |
| Notes |
Papers from a seminar held July 1979, sponsored by Sperry Univac, U.K |
| Subject |
Literature and science -- Congresses.
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Literature and science.
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Science fiction -- Congresses.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Science fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Malik, Rex, 1928-
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Sperry Univac, U.K.
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| LC no. |
81455783 |
| ISBN |
0903804646 |
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