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Cargando... Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travelpor Paul J. Nahin, Ben Bova (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A reissue of Nahin's 1997 book also with the title _Time Travel_ (which at first I thought I had read, but it was actually his 1993 _Time Machines_ that I had earlier read). Ostensibly it's a manual for science-fiction authors writing stories involving time travel; e.g., Nahin repeatedly urges such authors to avoid the mistake of positing that the past could be *changed* by time travelers. But really it's a good, fascinating, popular-level account of time-travel-related physics (which, it has to be said, is the subject of some more recent and up-to-date books by others). Third of four volumes in Writers Digest's Science Fiction Writing Series. Author Nahin approaches the science behind theoretical methods of time travel from a literary perspective by highlighting popular time travel methods used in classic novels and stories to date. He then explores a wide variety of scientific theories about time travel, with concrete examples of how to incorporate these into your own speculative fiction. Interesting chapters include "Time as the Fourth Dimension", "When General Relativity Made Time Travel Honest", "Time Machines That Physicists Have Already 'Invented'", "Quantum Gravity, Splitting Universes, and Time Machines" and "Reading the Physics Literature for Story Ideas." As with earlier volumes in this series, there is a helpful glossary of terms and concepts, and an extensive bibliography of additional reading on the topic. Of the four volumes in this series, I found this one to be the most technical, dealing as it is with theoretical physics. Still, a useful tool for writers of science fiction. Originally reviewed for my local library's website: http://www.lincolnlibraries.org/depts/bookguide/srec/staffrec09-11.htm sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov to Ursula K. Le Guin, time travel has long been a favorite topic and plot device in tales of science fiction and fantasy. But as any true SF fan knows, astounding stories about traversing alternate universes and swimming the tides of time demand plausible science. That's just what Paul J. Nahin's guide provides. An engineer, physicist, and published science fiction writer, Nahin is uniquely qualified to explain the ins and outs of how to spin such complex theories as worm holes, singularity, and relativity into scientifically sound fiction. First published in 1997, this fast-paced book discusses the common and not-so-common time-travel devices science fiction writers have used over the years, assesses which would theoretically work and which would not, and provides scientific insight inventive authors can use to find their own way forward or backward in time. From hyperspace and faster-than-light travel to causal loops and the uncertainty principle and beyond, Nahin's equation-free romp across time will help writers send their characters to the past or future in an entertaining, logical, and scientific way. If you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox--or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you read could ever happen--then this book is for you. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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So, yeah, pretty much not clearly written. I won't, however, rate it as negatively as I'm tempted to do, because I may not have been in the right frame of mind. And I didn't discover the glossary until the end - which would have been very helpful. The index, too, would probably benefit those readers who want to actually study & use the book, rather than just read it as I tried to do.
Also at the end is a list of short story collections from which the stories Nahin admires for being logical & plausible come. Unfortunately, which story is in which collection is not noted, and many of the collections probably contain 'bad' TT stories, too. So, we readers would be wise to take notes (or use bookdarts) to mark stories of interest, and then just reference www.isfd.com for that source info.
You'll just have to judge for yourself. And if you are a writer, please do try to do so, so that your TT makes sense.
I'll use the comment section to record all the story and book suggestions I gleaned."