Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

How science shapes science fiction [videorecording (DVD)] / Professor Charles L. Adler.

by Adler, Charles L.

View full image

Teaching Company, 2020.

DVD 809.38762 A237h

Science fiction -- History and criticism.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Great courses (DVD).

Alternate title:

Great Courses. How science shapes science fiction [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 194 p. : ill., por. ; 19 cm.)

"24 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.

Course no. 2358.

Closed-captioned.

Disc 1. Science and fiction! the wayfarers series -- Cheating the science: protector -- Prediction: from the Earth to the moon -- World-building in the Left hand of darkness -- Advanced world-building in Avatar -- Action and reaction in The Avengers -- Disc 2. Space travel and 2001: A space odyssey -- Interplanetary travel and The Martian -- Space battles and energy weapons: Star wars -- Advanced rocket systems in Star trek -- Relativity and time for the Stars -- Black holes, wormholes, and Interstellar -- Disc 3. Time travel and Doctor Who -- Teleportation and Star trek -- Cyberspace and the singularity: Neuromancer -- Steampunk science and Leviathan -- Design your own dragon: Game of thrones -- Planetary ecology in Dune -- Disc 4. Extraterrestrial intelligence and Contact -- UFOs, ESP, and X-files -- Social sciences and the Foundation series -- Designed languages and Arrival -- Cosmology, the mind, and Star maker -- Science fiction's purpose: Childhood's end.

Lecturer, Charles L. Adler, PhD, Professor of Physics, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

"Science fiction has been called 'the literature of the future,' but how often do writers get the science right? Most of us are familiar with the common features of the genre: interstellar travel, laser weapons, alien technology, teleportation, artificial intelligence, time travel, and more. But how much do we know about the science behind the stories and their imaginative worlds? It's true that these are, indeed, science fiction, but you may be surprised by how much scientific reality lies at the heart of well-known science fiction tropes."--Publisher's website.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Instructional films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Teaching Company.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal