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The Science of Doctor Who
The Scientific Facts Behind the Time Warps and Space Travels of the Doctor
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See moreGeek out over the TARDIS, aliens, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, and all your favorite characters from the Doctor Who Universe! Doctor Who Doctor Who in worldwide simulcast and cinema extravaganzas. Doctor Who has infused our minds and our language and made it much richer. Doctor Who In The Science of Doctor Who What does Doctor Who Doctor Who
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Geek out over the TARDIS, aliens, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, and all your favourite characters from the Doctor Who Universe!
Doctor Who arrived with the Space Age, when the Doctor first began exploring the universe in a time-travelling spaceship. Over half a century since, the Doctor has gone global. Millions of people across this planet enjoy Doctor Who in worldwide simulcast and cinema extravaganzas. Doctor Who has infused our minds and our language, enriching it greatly.
What a fantastic world we inhabit through the Doctor. The programme boils over with adventurous women, bisexual companions, scientific passion, and a billion weird and wonderful alien worlds beyond our own. The show represents almost sixty years' worth of magical science-fiction storytelling. Despite being about a thousands-of-years-old alien with two hearts and a spacetime taxi made of wood, Doctor Who remains one of our very best role models for what it is to be human in the twenty-first century.
In The Science of Doctor Who, we take a peek under the hood of the TARDIS and explore the science behind questions such as:
- What does Doctor Who tell us about space travel?
- Could the TARDIS really be bigger on the inside?
- In what ways does the Doctor view the end of our world?
- Is the Doctor right about alternate timelines and parallel worlds?
- Will intelligent machines ever rule the earth?
- Is the earth becoming more like Doctor Who's matrix?
- Is the Doctor a superhero?
- How do Daleks defecate?
So welcome to The Science of Doctor Who, where the Doctor steps smoothly in and out of different realities, faces earthly and unearthly threats with innovation and unpredictability, and successfully uses science in the pay of pacifist resistance!
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781510757868
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 476g
Pages: 264
About the Author
Mark Brake developed the world's first science and science fiction degree in 1999 and launched the world's first astrobiology degree in 2005. He's communicated science through film, television, print, and radio on five continents, including for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, and Sky Cinema. Markalso tours Europe with Science of Doctor Who, Science of Star Wars, and Science of Superheroes road shows.
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