The Planiverse
Dewdney, A. K.
| Autor: | Dewdney, A. K. |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Amerikanische Belletristik / Science Fiction |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 12.10.2000 |
| EAN: | 9780387989167 |
| Auflage: | 2000 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 280 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer New York Springer US Springer US, New York, N.Y. |
| Untertitel: | Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World |
Produktinformationen "The Planiverse"
When The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it exists at all, is a thin one. There were those who wanted to believe, despite the tongue-in-cheek subtext, that we had made contact with a two-dimensional world called Arde, a di- shaped planet embedded in the skin of a vast, balloon-shaped space called the planiverse. It is tempting to imagine that those who believed, as well as those who suspended disbelief, did so because of a persuasive consistency in the cosmology and physics of this in?nitesimally thin universe, and x preface to the millennium edition in its bizarre but oddly workable organisms. This was not just your r- of-the-mill universe fashioned out of the whole cloth of wish-driven imagination. The planiverse is a weirder place than that precisely - cause so much of it was ¿worked out¿ by a virtual team of scientists and technologists. Reality, even thepseudoreality of such a place, is - variably stranger than anything we merely dream up.
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