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Bezig met laden... Impact Parameter: And Other Quantum Realitiesdoor Geoffrey A. Landis
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Reading more like a news report from the future than contemporary fiction, this collection of short stories combines hard science with rich emotionalism to explore myriad realities. Stories in this collection include "Into the Blue Abyss," where the seas of Uranus are explored. There are stories detailing a space freighter and its encounter with space pirates, the "marsforming" of Mars, mathematical theorems from a very unlikely source, how Sherlock Holmes deals with a parasitic alien, the horrors of a hopeless war, and a voyage into a black hole. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Geoffrey Landis is the kind of hero Heinlein would admire: a scientist and an engineer, at home in theory and practice, widely read and expert in many fields, and also a poet and philosopher. Someone wrote of RAH that 'he wore imagination as his private suit of clothes.' That's true of Geoffrey Landis as well; the clothes in this case are overalls, working clothes, as he spins stories of hard science fiction that are based on a no-nonsense view of what science is. His stories, no matter how imaginative (and Ecopiesis, for instance, is very imaginative), are steeped in plausibility. When Dr. Landis gives you an explosion, you can be sure that the blast could have, would have, occurred that way.
Of the stories, the first, "A Walk in the Sun", is my favorite; it has the warm glow of a Heinlein juvenile. I had the sense that RAH was looking over my shoulder and nodding approval. Winter Fire was also excellent, and you'd do well to read the Afterward for a glimpse into the mind of a working writer of hard science fiction. There are 16 stories here, and I guarantee you'll find something to your liking. ( )