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_aThe Universe / _cByron Preiss, editor ; Andrew Fraknoi, scientific editor. |
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_aToronto ; _aNew York : _bBantam Books, _cc1987. |
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| 264 | 4 | _cc1987. | |
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_a335 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c26 cm. |
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| 500 | _aSeries statement from jacket. | ||
| 500 | _a"A Byron Preiss book." | ||
| 504 | _aBibliography: p. 333-334. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _a Frontier / Byron Preiss -- The universe: an introduction / Andrew Fraknoi -- What is the universe? / Isaac Asimov -- Art and science fiction; unbuilt cities/unrealized dreams / Ray Bradbury -- Our galaxy / Eric J. Chaisson -- Mandikini / Gregory Benford -- Starbirth and maturity / Martin Cohen -- To touch a star / Ben Bova -- Supernovae: creative cataclysms in the galaxy / David J. Helfand -- The iron star / Robert Silverberg -- The black hole / William J. Kaufmann -- Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis -- Galaxies and cluster / Hyron Spinrad -- Bubbles / David Brin. Quasars and active galaxies / Harding E. Smith -- For thus do I remember Carthage / Michael Bishop -- The intergalactic medium / Wallace Tucker -- The man who was a cosmic string / Rudy Rucker -- Cosmology: the quest to understand the creation and expansion of the universe / Allan Sandage -- Requiem for a universe / Poul Anderson -- The new physics and the universe / James Trefil -- All the hues of hell / Gene Wolfe -- Who will speak for Earth? an essay on extraterrestrial intelligence and contact / Donald Goldsmith -- The dark shadow / Frederik Pohl. | |
| 520 | _aThe chapters consist of essays by astronomers, speculations by science fiction authors, and illustrations by space artists and deep space photographers. Writers include Isaac Asimov, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, Ray Bradbury, David Brin, William J. Kaufmann, Frederik Pohl, Allan Sandage, Robert Silverberg, Hyron Spinrad, Connie Willis, and others. | ||
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_aFraknoi, Andrew. _eeditor |
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