The Microverse Author:Byron Preiss (Editor) A major new collaboration by some of the world's foremost scientists and authors of speculative fiction. — A lushly color-illustrated collection of popular essays on the microscopic world as we now know it, followed by brief science fiction pieces. Contributors include Asimov, Glashow, Philip Morrison, Leon Lederman. — What you are holding is ... more »not just a book. It is an ever shifting, stretching, and contracting mass of subatomic particles. In the cavernous spaces between the pages of this book live some of the thousands of microorganisms that inhabit The Microverse. Beyond our illusion of solid surface is a strange reality of minuscule cells; of antimatter, quarks, and leptons; and invisible world of forces yet to be fully understood by mankind.
The Microverse is an historic new collaboration between some of the world's leading physicists and science-fiction authors. It is an original compendium of our knowledge and our visions of the microscopic world.
The Microverse contains lucid, cutting-edge essays by Dr. Leon Lederman, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize; Dr. Philip Morrison, professor of physics and astronomy at M.I.T. and the author of Powers of Ten; Dr. William A. Haseltine, chief of the Division of Human Retrovirology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Sheldon Lee Glashow, Nobel Prize winner and Higgins Professor of Physics and Mellon Professor of the Sciences at Harvard University; and Edward Kolb, head of the NASA/Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Accompanying the essays are works exploring what we know about the microverse in the words of such Hugo and Nebula winning science fiction authors as Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, Connie Willis, Poul Anderson and Michael Bishop.
Each story is illustrated by the work of some of the world's foremost visionary artists. Bob Eggleton captures the confluence of the classics and modern physics; Darrel Anderson interprets the point where quantum theory meets Hollywood; and Alan Gutierrez takes us into the world under the microscope.
The Microverse is a companion volume to the bestseller The Planets.With scientific photographs, The Microverse will take you to a realm as fascinating as our solar system.« less