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    Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists
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    Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists

    By Brendan Allison, Amy Berner, David Dylan Thomas and

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    About this ebook

    Scientific experts explore the ideas behind the hit TV show.
     
    Fringe Science delves into the science, science fiction, and pseudoscience of Fringe with a collection of essays on everything from alternate universes to time travel to genetically targeted toxins, as well as discussions on the show’s moral philosophy and the consequences of playing God.
     
    • MIT physics professor Max Tegmark illuminates the real-life possibilities of parallel universes
    • Stephen Cass, founding editor of Discover’s Science Not Fiction blog and a senior editor with MIT Technology Review, unravels Fringe’s use of time travel
    • Award-winning science fiction historian Amy H. Sturgis walks us through the show’s literary and television ancestors, from the 1800s on
    • Television Without Pity staff writer Jacob Clifton looks at the role of the scientist, and scientific redemption, through the ever-shifting role of Massive Dynamic
    • Garth Sundem, bestselling author of Brain Candy, explores the mysterious way that memory works, from why Walter forgets to how Olivia remembers
    • Paul Levinson, award-winning author of The Silk Code, shows how Fringe re-invents themes from golden-age 1950s science fiction
     
    And more, from lab cow Gene’s scientific résumé to why the Observers should be wearing white lab coats.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 30, 2011
    ISBN9781935618911
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      I rate this one quite highly, but I am biased, I have always loved the Fringe series. This collections gives some valuable background.