Science Fiction Puzzle Tales

Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
Title Science Fiction Puzzle Tales PDF eBook
Author Martin Gardner
Publisher
Pages 148
Release 1983-07-01
Genre Logic
ISBN 9780140064667

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Science Fiction Puzzle Tales

Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
Title Science Fiction Puzzle Tales PDF eBook
Author Martin Gardner
Publisher Random House Value Publishing
Pages 168
Release 1981
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN

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Thirty-six science fiction stories contain brain-teasing puzzles for the reader to solve.

Riddles of the Sphinx

Riddles of the Sphinx
Title Riddles of the Sphinx PDF eBook
Author Martin Gardner
Publisher MAA Press
Pages 184
Release 1987
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN

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"Solving these riddles is not simply a matter of logic and calculation, though these play a role. Luck and inspiration are factors as well, so beginners and experts alike may profitably exercise their wits on Gardner's problems, whose subjects range from geometry to word play to questions relating to physics and geology. We guarantee that you will solve some of these riddles, be stumped by others, and be amused by almost all of the stories and settings that Gardner has devised to raise these questions." --Back cover.

Science Fiction

Science Fiction
Title Science Fiction PDF eBook
Author Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Pages 548
Release 1983-09-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780195032727

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Presents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.

Look to Windward

Look to Windward
Title Look to Windward PDF eBook
Author Iain Banks
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 500
Release 2002
Genre Caste
ISBN 0743421922

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Eight hundred years after the most horrific battle of the Idiran war, light from its world-destroying detonations is about to reach the Masaq Orbital, home to the Culture. Major Quilan has supposedly come to take the exiled Composer Ziller back to their war-ravaged home world, Chel. But despite the major's civilized veneer, his true mission may be the death and destruction of an entire civilization.

Science Fact and Science Fiction

Science Fact and Science Fiction
Title Science Fact and Science Fiction PDF eBook
Author Brian M. Stableford
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 758
Release 2006
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0415974607

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The No-Sided Professor

The No-Sided Professor
Title The No-Sided Professor PDF eBook
Author Martin Gardner
Publisher Prometheus Books
Pages 224
Release 2010-10-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1615926860

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Here is Martin Gardner''s first collection of short stories. Culled from fiction written over the years for such magazines as Esquire and the London Mystery Magazine, The No-Sided Professor is proof that Gardner''s expertise does not stop at his scientific and mathematical works. Only Gardner can infuse short stories with the same masterful charm, wit, and philosophical brio that have brought him legions of fans through his mathematical-puzzle books and investigations into science and pseudoscience. Gardner introduces us to the "No-Sided Professor," Dr. Stanislaw Slapenarski, who by means of a kind of mathematical yoga blips himself and his nemesis into another dimension. In "At the Feet of Karl Klodhopper," Gardner tells an engrossing story of lust and murder in the art world. These and other stories reveal Gardner''s astonishingly wide range of intellectual insight and cultural acumen. The No-Sided Professor is full of tales of fantasy, humor, the bohemian life, topological wizardry, and mystery. All are stamped with the unmistakable seal of a master storyteller.