Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines explores how this fascinating symbiosis shapes what we see, do, and dream.
 
From Johannes Kepler's Somnium to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, science fiction has emerged as a mode …