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The Microverse
| Author: | Byron Preiss |
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Ballantine Spectra, 1989 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Beyond our illusion of solid surface is a strange reality of miniscule cells; of antimatter, quarks, and leptons; an invisible world of forces yet to be fully understood by mankind. A collaboration among some of the world's foremost physicists and authors of speculative fiction journeys into a world inhabited by microorganisms, miniscule cells, and subatomic particles, in a study of current knowledge and vision of microscopic world.
Table of Contents:
- We Are Not Alone - essay by Byron Preiss
- Introduction - essay by William R. Alschuler
- The Invisible World - essay by Linn W. Hobbs and Jean Paul Revel
- The Ommatidium Miniatures - shortstory by Michael Bishop
- Cell Ecology - essay by Marcel Bessis
- Too Bad! - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
- The Genetic Code - essay by William A. Haseltine
- Samson in the Temple of Science - shortstory by Harry Harrison
- The World of Molecules - essay by William M. Gelbart
- Death Wish - shortstory by Poul Anderson
- The Nuclear World - essay by Philip Morrison
- Half-Life - shortstory by Paul Preuss
- The Electron - essay by Gerald Feinberg
- Chip Runner - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
- An Experiment in High-Energy Physics - essay by Leon M. Lederman
- A Matter Most Strange - shortstory by Robert L. Forward
- At the Rialto - (1989) - novelette by Connie Willis
- Quarks and Beyond - essay by Alvaro De Rújula
- Ambiguity - shortstory by David Brin
- The Forces of Nature - essay by Sheldon Lee Glashow
- Mozart on Morphine - (1989) - shortstory by Gregory Benford
- Inner Space / Outer Space - essay by Edward W. Kolb
- As Above, So Below - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
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