
The Science of Science Fiction
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- Guardians of the Galaxy: Is Space Full of Extraterrestrials?
- Jacking In: Will the Future Be Like Ready Player One?
- Mad Max: Is Society Running down into Chaos?
- The Internet: Will Humans Tire of Mere Reality?
- Blade Runner 2049: When Will We Engineer Human Lookalikes?
- And many more!
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Space
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Is Space Full of Extraterrestrials?
- Arrival: How Do Humans Compare with Aliens?
- How Did Science Fiction Put Men on the Moon?
- Should Science Make a Real-Life Jurassic World?
- Interdimensional Rick and Morty: Do Parallel Worlds Exist?
- The War of the Worlds: How Did Science Fiction Convince Us Aliens Would Invade?
- Avatar: Are There Other Earths in Space?
- Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: Why Are Wars in Space So Wrong?
- The Martian: When Will We Colonize Space?
- Passengers: Will Space Tourism Ever Please Jennifer Lawrence?
- Part II: Time
- Back to the Future: Will Time Travel Ever Be Possible?
- Interstellar: How Does Time Work as a Dimension?
- Looper: Will We Ever Build a Time Machine?
- 2001: A Space Odyssey: Is There Evidence of Guided Evolution in Human History?
- What's the History of Science Fiction in Seven Objects?
- Mad Max: Is Society Running Down into Chaos?
- The Minority Report and The Matrix: Will We Ever Develop Precognition?
- Lord of Light: How Does Science Fiction Cheat Death?
- Apocalypse Now: In What Six Ways Does Science Fiction See the End of Our World?
- Man in the High Castle: What Does Science Fiction Say about History?
- Part III: Machine
- Battle of New York: How Did Science Fiction Invent the Nuke?
- Is George Orwell's 1984 Becoming a Reality?
- When Will We Be Able to Boast Blade Runner-Like Flying Cars?
- Total Recall: When Will We Vacation in Cyberspace?
- Transformers: Age of Extinction: Will Robots Replace Humans?
- Avengers: Age of Ultron: When Will Machine Intelligence Come of Age?
- Jacking In: Will the Future Be Like Ready Player One?
- The Internet: Will Humans Tire of Mere Reality?
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon: How Did Science Fiction Invent the Rocket?
- Dr. Strangelove: From Reagan's Star Wars to Trump's Space Force
- Part IV: Monster
- Gods and Monsters: Will Humans Evolve Superpowers?
- Hitman: Can Genetic Engineering Produce Supersoldiers?
- Professor Charles Xavier: Could Future Humans Evolve Psychic Powers?
- The Island: Could Cloning End in Organ-Harvesting Farms?
- Blade Runner 2049: When Will We Engineer Human Look-alikes?
- X-Men: Will There Be Mutant Humans in the Future?
- Brave New World: Will Eugenics Be Used on Human Populations in the Future?
- Orphan Black: What Does the Future Hold for Human Cloning?
- Black Mirror and Altered Carbon: When Will Human Consciousness Slip Its Skin?
- The Amazing Spider-Man: Why Is the World Hung Up on the Idea of a Superserum?
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