Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1055949 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

If you are a professor...Maybe
The title of this review says it all...

A real eye opener.
Boarderlands of Science. A small handy size book that really cuts the mustard when it comes to discovering the components that make great Sci-Fi.
Want to know what the ship of the future might use as a power plant? Black holes? DNA? Quantum computers? - Charles Sheffield brings it to you in a friendly easy to read format. Ideas literally spark from the pages. What if's get you quickly scrabbling for a pen and paper creating ideas you wouldn't have thought possible in your wildest dreams. Yes, its that good!
So if you want to spend endless hours on the internet and find very little about the subject, go ahead. Don't buy this book. But if you want up to date information by your side when the Novel or paper beckons - Well you know what to do...