Future Proof: The Greatest Gadgets and Gizmos Ever Imagined
Nick Sagan
Mark Frary
Andy Walker
UK £ 10.99
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UK Publication 7th August 2008
ISBN 978-184831004-9
Detailing the history, the reality and the tech spec of 50 of science fiction's most brilliant crime-fighting, space-travelling, remote controlled, lightspeed, artificially intelligent inventions, Future Proof is required reading for anyone who knows their wormhole from their black hole...
Features:
Buck Rogers' jetpack - The Jetsons' Flying cars - Star Trek's transporters - The Six Million-Dollar Man's cyborg - Sleeper's Orgasmatron - 2001's artificial intelligence - Lost in Space's remote controlled robots - Vanilla Sky's Cryonics - Star Wars' Warp Drives - Back to the Future's time travel - Total Recall's Terraforming - Doctor Who's robot pets - Galatic Patrol's Cybernetics - A Fall of Moondust's space tourism - Stargate's wormholes - Brave New World's Hypnopedia.
Nick Sagan is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and the author of the bestselling SF novels Idlewild, Edenborn and Everfree.
Mark Frary is a science journalist whose work has appeared in The Times and many other newspapers and magazines.
Andy Walker currently hosts and produces a video podcast at www.labrats.tv.
