Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Science-into-Fiction) - Softcover

Blower, Lisa; Dean, Claire; Gilbert, Zoe; Levy, Deborah; Marek, Adam; Roberts, Adam; Schofield, Sarah; Bedford, Martyn; Hedgecock, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905583699 ISBN 13: 9781905583690

Verlag: Comma Press, 2015

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'These stories offer intelligent and nuanced explorations of some of the ethical and cultural implications of an area of science that has the potential to affect every one of us.' --The New Welsh Review

Reseña del editor:

The science of sleep is changing. Recent studies are revolutionising the way we think about ‘nature’s second course’ and its relationship to memory, decision-making and motor skills. And yet very little of this new research has so far been touch by fiction writers. Despite storytelling's age-old fascination with sleep and dreams, authors have yet to properly address even the basics of contemporary sleep science. This commission is the first attempt to incorporate some of this new theory into storytelling and popular fiction: from memory consolidation, to the 'printing' of new memories during sleep, from sleep disorders like parasomnia, to genetic theories about insomnia – these stories cover everything the modern field has to offer, whilst staying in touch with the age-old mythology that still surrounds and informs our understanding of sleep.

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• Verlag: Comma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1905583699
• ISBN 13: 9781905583690
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Lewis Penny, Page Ra