The Science in Science Fiction

The Science in Science Fiction. Peter Nicholls, gen. ed. David Langford and Brian Stableford, contributors. New York: Knopf, 1983.

Deals directly with a number of S. F. narratives. Useful sections on generation starships, space habitats, alien societies (including social insects), "Intelligent Machines" (including cyborgs and [AI] robots), "Pantropy" (adapting humans to alien environments), and eutopias and dystopias.

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