Jam-packed with aliens and time machines, spaceships and cyborgs and the end of time, Space, Time, Machine, Monster tells you how sci-fi helped build the world in which we live. Of the fifty biggest-selling movies of all time, most are sci-fi films. Ten million viewers tune in each week to watch Doctor Who. And in the ever-expanding world of computer games, sci-fi titles rule. Yet our futuristic world was imagined long ago. Dreamt up in the minds of movie directors and classic sci-fi stories. And now it's the world we live in. How did THAT happen?! As space tourism becomes a reality and the first human to live to 1000 has already been born, it's about time you found out!

 

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Candy Jar Books .

Mark Brake is an author, broadcaster and communicator of science. Once an academic, based at the University of Glamorgan, UK, he is now working freelance. Mark writes popular science books, and does science communication work in film, television and radio on five continents, including work with NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, and the BBC.