A beautifully inventive collection from multi award-winning author Nina Allan. These stories will enthral fans of China Mieville, Aliya Whiteley and Carmen Maria Machado. A stunningly inventive collection from multi award-winning author, Nina Allan. Unsettling, dark and brilliantly astute, these weird and wonderful tales take us on journeys through time and space to explore enduring questions of memory and loss. Her worlds are recognisably our own but always closer to the edge, on the slant – and sharply unexpected. These stories are an unmissable insight into a writer at the top of her game.

Dr.T.Y.Satheesha, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science Engineering, REVA University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Dr.M.A.Mateen, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CMR University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Mrs.Tamizharasi.GS, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CMR University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Banupriya.M, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, School of Engineering and Technology, CMR University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. N.Bhavyadevi Vishalakshi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, CMR University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He explores how key thinkers like René Descartes, Benjamin Constant, Thomas DeQuincey, Guy du Maupassant, J.D. Bernal, and Ralph Waldo Emerson influenced and are reflected in twentieth-century science fiction stories from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and Russia. The conclusion begins with Slusser’s overview of global science fiction in the twenty-first century and discusses recent developments in countries like China, Romania, and Israel. Hayles’s foreword provides a useful summation of the book’s contents, while science fiction writer Gregory Benford contributes an afterword providing a personal perspective on the life and thoughts of his longtime friend. The book was edited by Slusser’s former colleague Gary Westfahl, a distinguished scholar in his own right.

A translation from German of a 1929 treatise by the author. Deals with the problem of the space travel. Expresses ideas about rocketry and space travel. Extensive treatment of the engineering aspects of a space station. Extensive bibliography. 100 drawings.

From the foreword by Dr. rer. pol. Erik Kolek This book is about the physical foundations of interstellar space travel. Interstellar space travel involves traveling between stars, such as between our sun and Proxima Centauri. Humanity, or rather its technologies, are still at the very beginning of the technological development series, and the same applies to the physical foundations. The latter must be listed and explained step by step in order to make traveling between the stars possible, at least in theory.