Overview
- Introduces the topic of future interstellar societal structures and challenges by means of a hard science fiction novel
- Entertaining page-turner authored by a leading expert in space sciences and space robotics
- Contains an extensive nontechnical overview of the current state-of-the-art science facts and speculations
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Novel
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Front Matter
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The Science Behind the Fiction
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About this book
Sometime in the not-too-distant future ... unbeknownst to Earth, the Galaxy is home to a number of spacefaring societies. This confederation enforces a strict protocol forbidding any contact with civilizations that have not yet achieved both a substantial spacefaring capability and sufficient maturity to control the technology explosion before triggering their own extinction.
While this policy is intended to only bring in peaceful new members, matters change entirely when the confederation is threatened by some unknown entity - is the menace real or imagined? The confederation decides to break with the rules and sends a delegate to Earth to hire one of the supposedly belligerent Earthlings to investigate and to revive the confederation’s long-unused starfleet. The Earthman agrees, but demands a high price: should he succeed, the confederation will have to accept Earth as a new member. As the threat becomes ever more acute, the question soon becomes which mission will prove harder - saving the confederation or convincing it to accept the deal!
The extensive appendix, written in non-technical language, reviews the scientific and technological topics underlying the plot - ranging from the Fermi paradox, space travel and artificial/collective intelligence to theories on possible universal convergences in technological and biological development.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Man From Planet Earth
Book Subtitle: A Scientific Novel
Authors: Giancarlo Genta
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21115-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21114-5Published: 14 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21115-2Published: 26 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astrobiology, Popular Life Sciences, Popular Science in Physics, Popular Earth Science