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- Presents fifteen science fiction short stories by award-winning author
- Teaching tool for academic classrooms to convey concepts in engineering and science as well as critical thinking skills
- Entertains and educates readers to instil a sense of wonder and a better understanding of engineering and science
Part of the book series: Science and Fiction (SCIFICT)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Eric Choi’s story collection takes us on an epic literary road trip across the red sands of Mars, down the mysterious tunnels of an asteroid, into our ocean’s inky depths, and even plunges into the remote crevasses of our brain. His narratives are a perfect fusion of meticulous scientific research and imagination, a classic hard SF approach that ponders territories just beyond our reach. While Choi’s alternative histories and fictional tales cover a wide range of topics, each one is an invitation to see the world anew. He challenges us to let go of stereotypes and assumptions, and he does so with great subtlety and charm. The afterwords following each story provide fascinating background information that contextualizes the narratives and provide intriguing insights into politics, science, and history. Clear your agenda. This book is impossible to put down.” (Bettina Forget, Director of the Artist-in-Residence Program at the SETI Institute)
“Eric Choi has created an intellectually engaging collection of stories with afterwords discussing the meticulously researched science of each. A real tour de force.” (Michael Brotherton, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wyoming, Editor of Science Fiction by Scientists)
“When an award-winning writer and editor is also an aerospace engineer you get some of the best hard SF stories around. In Just Like Being There, Eric Choi writes with clarity, grace, and imagination as he leads us through an astonishing breadth of topics and themes from near-future stories of astronauts doing dangerous work to alternate history tales on CaptainNemo. The fifteen stories in this book are enter[1]taining, exciting, and thoughtful by turn. This collection deserves a huge audience. Very highly recommended.” (Rick Wilber, Author and Visiting Professor of Genre Fiction at Western Colorado University, Administrator of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing)
“Enjoyable and thought provoking. This collection of short stories is a must read for those who have an interest in aviation, space, and scientific innovation. Choi’s blend of futuristic settings and historical what-ifs challenged a number of my assumptions about the science fiction genre and made me look at our history–and some of the treasures in our collection–in a completely different light.” (Christopher Kitzan, Director General of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum)
Authors and Affiliations
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Toronto, Canada
Eric Choi
About the author
Eric Choi is a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng) with a B.A.Sc in Engineering Science and an M.A.Sc in Aerospace Engineering, both from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from York University. In 2009, he was one of the Top 40 finalists (out of 5,351 applicants) in the Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut recruitment campaign.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Just Like Being There
Book Subtitle: A Collection of Science Fiction Short Stories
Authors: Eric Choi
Series Title: Science and Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91605-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91604-6Published: 08 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91605-3Published: 07 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2197-1188
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1196
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 302
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Artificial Intelligence, Fiction