Time Travel: A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel (Science Fiction Writing Series) - Softcover

Nahin, Paul J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898797489 ISBN 13: 9780898797480

Publisher: Writers Digest Books, 1997

Synopsis

Explores the theories of relativity and the science behind time travel to help writers of science fiction create their stories

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Review:

When Kurt Vonnegut needed protagonist Billy Pilgrim to time-travel in Slaughterhouse Five, he simply had him become "unstuck" in time--still perhaps the most poetic way to trip the chronological fantastic yet devised in literature. But electric engineering professor and science fiction writer Paul Nahin doesn't want you taking short cuts in your epoch-journeying yarns--at least, not because you were lazy about research. Subtitled A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel, this is a tasty blend of quantum theory, worm holes, causal loops, and the famous "grandfather paradox"--the better to sell your heroine's time-skipping to even the most skeptical suspender of disbelief.

About the Author:

Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Hampshire and the author of several books, including Mrs. Perkin's Electric Quilt and Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics, Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion, and Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age, the last also published by Johns Hopkins.

About this edition

• Publisher: Writers Digest Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0898797489
• ISBN 13: 9780898797480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200