Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.
Contents:
Light caught bending: relativity in the newspapers -- Einstein for the tired business man: exposition in magazines -- Cracks in the cosmos: space and time in pulp fiction -- A lady on Neptune: Arthur Eddington's talkative universe -- A freak sort of planet: Dorothy L. Sayers's cosmic bachelors -- Talking to Mars: William Empson's astronomy love poems -- Conclusion: Dreaming the future.
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