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Fictions and Hypotheticals
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Science is always telling stories. Whether in the creation myths of evolution or the Big Bang, or in the eureka moments of science history, narrative--just as much as metaphor--is a key tool in the scientist's surprisingly literary toolkit. Perhaps the most interesting use of story is the thought experiment, the intuition pump, that draws on the most instinctive parts of the imagination to crack otherwise perplexing problems. From Newton's Bucket and Maxwell's Demon to Einstein's Lift and Schrodinger's Cat, all are examples of "fiction" being used at the highest level, not just to explain but to deduce and to prove. In this unique anthology, authors--including Hassan Blasim, Lucy Caldwell, Julian Gough, Simon Ings, Sara Maitland, Adam Marek, Sean O'Brien, and Katherine Orr--have collaborated with leading scientists to bounce literary, human narratives against purely theoretical ones, alloying together real stories with abstract ones to produce truly extraordinary results.

Author Biography:

Ra Page is the cofounder and editorial manager of Comma Press. He is the editor of numerous anthologies, including "The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories"; "Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem"; "Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science," voted one of 2011 s books of the year by the "Observer"; "Morphologies: Short Story Writers on Short Story Writers," and the coeditor of "The New Uncanny," winner of the Shirley Jackson Award in 2008. William Fiennes is the bestselling author of "The Music Room" and "The Snow Geese." He has contributed reviews, essays and stories to many publications, including "Granta," the "London Review of Books," the "Observer," and the "Times Literary Supplement." He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.Robert Appleby is Lecturer in the high energy particle physics group and the accelerator physics group of the University of Manchester, and an academic staff member at the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science. He is also an associate of the beams division at CERN (APB) and a member of the LHCb experiment. His primary research is into the physics of particle accelerators, including beam dynamics, lattice design and interactions of particles with matter, and physics at the LHC."
Release date NZ
April 20th, 2017
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
3 black and white diagrams
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9781905583607
Product ID
20983867

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