AMA ZING WORLDS OF SCIENCE FIC TION AND SCIENCE FACT
SCIENCE-FICTION WORLDS LIKE TATOOINE AND ARRAKIS AREN’T AS FAR-FETCHED AS YOU THINK
AUTHOR KEITH COOPER
PUBLISHER REAKTION BOOKS
PRICE £15 / $22.50
RELEASE 1 MARCH
E xotic planets orbiting distant stars have always played a major role in science fiction, and that’s nowhere more obvious than in Star Trek, where each episode begins with a reminder that the starship Enterprise is on a mission to explore strange new worlds. Yet those words were first uttered almost 30 years before the first genuine exoplanet was detected in 1995. Since then, astronomers have discovered thousands more of them, so it’s reasonable to ask how these real-life planets stack up against their science-fiction counterparts. That’s the question addressed in this fascinating book.