A NASA research scientist and advisor for such television series as Battlestar Galactica and The Zula Patrol presents a series of essays by leading genre writers on the science, science fiction and pseudo-science of the hit television series Fringe that considers topics ranging from alternate universes to time travel. Original. TV tie-in. Fringe has always been more than the sum of its parts—but its parts, too, are worth a closer look. The show combines a surfeit of mad science, some old-school sci-fi flair, and a dash of strawberry-milkshake whimsy to create the challenging, fascinating Pattern that keeps us coming back season after season and universe after universe.Now, in Fringe Science, cutting-edge scientists, science writers, and science fiction authors and historians provide a smart, savvy, and accessible look at the world(s) of Fringe. • MIT physics professor Max Tegmark illuminates the real-life possibilities of parallel universes• Stephen Cass, founding editor of Discovers Science Not Fiction blog and a Senior Editor with Technology Review, unravels Fringes use of time travel• Award-winning science fiction historian Amy H. Sturgis walks us through the shows literary and television ancestors, from the 1800s on• Television Without Pity staff writer Jacob Clifton looks at the role of the scientist, and scientific redemption, through the ever-shifting role of Massive Dynamic• Garth Sundem, bestselling author of Brain Candy, explores the mysterious way that memory works, from why Walter forgets to how Olivia remembers • And more, from lab cow Genes scientific résumé to why the Observers should be wearing white lab coats
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