Visions of Tomorrow: Exploring Classic Sci-Fi Stories Through the Lens of Modern Science (明日的願景：透視經典科幻故事與現代科學的交匯)
Webb, Stephen
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2025-01-24
- 售價: $1,110
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,055
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 276
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031775996
- ISBN-13: 9783031775994
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商品描述
This anthology invites readers to revisit twelve timeless stories from visionary authors while pondering the scientific advancements they foreshadowed, making it ideal for fans of both science fiction and science.
In Algernon Blackwood's A Victim of Higher Space, the concept of extra spatial dimensions is explored, while Miles J. Breuer's The Gostak and the Doshes examines time as a dimension in relativity. Stanley Waterloo's Love and a Triangle touches on efforts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence, and Max Adeler's The Fortunate Island raises questions about humanity's readiness for first contact with alien life. Machine learning and AI feature in Edward L. Sabin's The Supersensitive Golf Ball, while Saki's Filboid Studge explores targeted advertising's transformation through AI. Edward Bellamy's With the Eyes Shut predicts devices like smartphones and sparks discussions on the future of scientific publishing. G.K. Chesterton's The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown delves into augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies. Edgar Wallace's The Black Grippe provides a historical lens on pandemics and communication of scientific uncertainty. J. Arbuthnot Wilson's PAUSODYNE looks at suspended animation and modern cryonics, while Edgar Allan Poe's The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar tackles advances in medical technology and definitions of death. Finally, Guy de Maupassant's The Horla explores the potential for humanity to be supplanted by new life forms.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本選集邀請讀者重溫十二個來自具遠見作家的永恆故事，同時思考這些故事所預示的科學進步，對於科幻迷和科學愛好者來說，都是理想的讀物。
在阿爾傑農·布萊克伍德的《高維空間的受害者》中，探討了額外空間維度的概念，而邁爾斯·J·布魯爾的《戈斯塔克與多謝斯》則檢視了相對論中的時間作為一個維度。史丹利·華特盧的《愛與三角形》觸及與外星智慧溝通的努力，馬克斯·阿德勒的《幸運島》則提出了人類對於首次接觸外星生命的準備問題。愛德華·L·薩賓的《超敏感高爾夫球》涉及機器學習和人工智慧，而薩基的《菲爾博伊德·斯圖奇》則探討了透過人工智慧轉變的目標廣告。愛德華·貝拉米的《閉眼看世界》預測了像智能手機這樣的設備，並引發了對科學出版未來的討論。G.K. 切斯特頓的《布朗少校的驚人冒險》深入探討了增強現實、虛擬現實和混合現實技術。埃德加·華萊士的《黑色流感》提供了對疫情和科學不確定性溝通的歷史視角。J. 阿巴斯諾特·威爾遜的《PAUSODYNE》探討了懸浮動畫和現代冷凍技術，而埃德加·愛倫·坡的《瓦爾德馬爾先生的案件事實》則處理了醫療技術的進步和死亡的定義。最後，居伊·德·莫泊桑的《霍拉》探討了人類被新生命形式取代的潛力。
作者簡介
Following a first-class honours degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester Stephen Webb has worked at a number of UK universities. In addition to shorter works, he has published eleven books - one of which won the SETI League award and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize (now Royal Society Winton Prize) for best science book. He is active in outreach activities, having spoken at numerous international conferences, podcasts and radio shows, and his 2018 TED Talk has been viewed over 6 million times. He has published an undergraduate textbook Measuring the Universe (Springer, 1999) as well as several popular science books, among them New Eyes on the Universe (Springer, 2012) and the second edition of If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? (Springer, 2015).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
斯蒂芬·韋布（Stephen Webb）在布里斯托大學獲得一級榮譽物理學學位，並在曼徹斯特大學獲得理論物理學博士學位後，曾在多所英國大學任教。除了短篇作品外，他已出版了十一本書籍，其中一本獲得了SETI聯盟獎，並入圍了阿文提斯獎（現為皇家學會溫頓獎）最佳科學書籍獎。他積極參與外展活動，曾在多個國際會議、播客和廣播節目中發言，並且他的2018年TED演講已被觀看超過600萬次。他出版了一本本科教科書《測量宇宙》（Measuring the Universe，Springer，1999），以及幾本流行科學書籍，其中包括《宇宙的新視野》（New Eyes on the Universe，Springer，2012）和《如果宇宙充滿外星人……那麼大家在哪裡？》（If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?，Springer，2015）的第二版。
