TITLE

Adventures in physicsland

AUTHOR(S)

Lafferty, George

PUB. DATE

April 1994

SOURCE

New Scientist;4/9/94, Vol. 142 Issue 1920, p40

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses the likeness of events contained in some fictional works with reality. Jules Verne's account of the details in the 1860s of the manned Moon landing; Resemblance of Mark Twain's character Mrs. Thatcher's search for her daughter who disappeared with Tom Sawyer with the Mrs. Thatcher of Great Britain; Parallels between Lewis Carroll's `The Hunting of Snarks' with the quest for the particle physics.

ACCESSION #

9405113240

Tags: SCIENCE fiction

 

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