Beschrijving
Could Pandora exist? How long would it take to get there? Would it even be possible?
The answers matter. James Cameron’s Avatar is the most succesful movie of all time, but his vividly realized epic has its roots in real scientific discovery. Cameron has provided us with a glimpse of life on a richly imagined faraway world. But if the human race is to survive, many, including no less a figure than Professor Stephen Hawking, have argued that we must colonize the stars.
From the physics of journeys into deep space to the chemistry of anti gravity unobtanium, and from Pandora’s extraordinary flora and fauna to the possibility of transferring consciousness, Baxter reveals that we are sometimes closer to the world of Avatar than we might imagine. And also, sometimes, apparently impossibly out of reach.
Exciting, surprising, and endlessly fascinating, The Science of Avatar is an extraordinary, thought-provoking companion to the biggest movie in history, from a master of “what-if?” science fiction.
Titel: The science of Avatar
Schrijver: Stephen Baxter
Uitgever: Orbit
ISBN: 9780316133470
Staat: Goed
