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Introduces the field of data-driven social sciences into the realm of SF
Entertaining and skilfull blend of thriller and SF
Contains a non-technical appendix on the underlying science
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Yet, in the newly settled Simpac system, some unexpected and worrying anomalies begin cropping up, making an urgent expedition to the system necessary: is it the underlying data, the computations, or is some unknown entity tampering with the space colonization program? A race against time ensues as the lives of four strangers begin to converge.
While grounded in the social systems aspect, the author posits that the future is likely to be characterized by more biology-based tools than most contemporary science fiction – which most often relies entirely on non-biological hardware in terms of advanced technologies – predicts. The result is an entertaining and skillful blend of thriller and SF, complemented by a nontechnical appendix describing the underlying science.
Keywords
- Space colonization
- Space politics and policies
- Data-driven psychohistory
- Asimov’s Foundation trilogy
- Planetary colonies
- Societal evolution
- Social computational systems
- biological computers
- Behavioral economics
- Colonial society in space
- data-driven social science in science fiction
- computational social sciences
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Public Health and Community, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Doug Brugge
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Incident on Simpac III
Book Subtitle: A Scientific Novel
Authors: Doug Brugge
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93160-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93159-3Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93160-9Published: 23 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 234
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics), Popular Social Sciences, Computational Social Sciences, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics