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Abbott, Edward, 137–141 androids, 58–59 Across Time (Wollheim), 59 . . . And Searching Mind (Williamson), Advanced Tissue Sciences, 218 58 AIDS, 128–130 Anstey, F., 168 aliens anthrax, 108, 113, 124, 125–126 astrobiology and, 92–94 Aristotle, 22, 80 Drake equation and, 82–91 artificial intelligence in Dreamcatcher, 77–80, 91–92 creating, 61–68 flying saucer reports, 82–83 early concepts of, 53–60 other stories about, 94–101 “friendly” design, 73–76 perception of, 238–239 of, 71–76 pluralism vs. plenitude, 80–82 “Trucks” plot and, 49–53, 68–71, in The Tommyknockers, 77–80, 91–92 73–76 All-Story Magazine, The, 95–96 artificial life (a-life), 66–68 “All You Zombies” (Heinlein), 172 Asian flu pandemic, 119–122 Amati, Daniele, 157 Asimov, Isaac, 56–57, 58–59 Amazing StoriesCOPYRIGHTED Quarterly, 55–56 “As Never MATERIAL Was” (Miller), 170 amygdala, 241 Asraf, Malik, 114 Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, The Astounding SF, 17, 18 (Willis), 34 Astounding Stories, 16–17, 169 Ancestral Voices (Schachner), 189 astrobiology, 92–94 Anderson, Poul, 172–173, 191, 196 Astrobiology, 93 “And He Built a Crooked House” , 27–28 (Heinlein), 141 atomic bombs, 104 Andrews, Christopher, 120 avian influenza, 116–122

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Bailey, Barrington J., 173 “Brain, The” (Blade), 58 “Barrier” (Boucher), 181 branes, 158, 193–194, 203 baryons, 151 Brass Bottle, The (Anstey), 168 “Beep” (Blish), 172 Breuer, Miles J., 55 Berserker (Saberhagen), 59 “bridges,” 179 Bester, Alfred, 17–18 Bring the Jubilee (Moore), 189 big bang theory, 194–197, 199 British Royal Society, 11, 177 binary logic, 62, 233 Broca’s area, 237 Binder, Eando, 56–57 Brownlee, Donald, 87–92 biological weapons, 122–127 bubonic plague, 111–116 Biopreparat, 125 buckytube, 223 bird flu, 116–122 Buniy, Roman, 180 Birds, The (Hitchcock), 228, 235 Burger, Dionys, 138 Black Death, 111–116, 123–124 Burnet, Frank Macfarlane, 120 black holes, 158–159, 175–181 Burrough, Edgar Rice, 55–56 Blackman, Eric, 178–179 But without Horns (Page), 17 Blade, Alexander, 58 “By His Bootstraps” (Heinlein), 170 Blade Runner, 58 Blanke, Olaf, 239 caesium, 38 “Blinding Shadows, The” (Wandrei), Calabi, Eugenio, 154, 155 140 Campbell, John W., Jr., 16–17, 96, Blish, James, 17, 172 169 Bloch, Robert, 57 Capek, Karel, 54–55 Bodek, Arie, 151–152 Captain Future (Hamilton), 56 body parts, replaceable, 216–219 Carrie (King), 2, 229, 235 Body Snatchers, The (Finney), 97 Cell compared to, 45–46 Bohr, Niels, 147, 195–196 consciousness and, 21–25 bosons, 151, 152, 154, 156 The Dead Zone compared to, 39–40 bottom-up approach, 63–64, 66–68 dualism and, 33–34 Boucher, Anthony, 181 film, 8, 19 Bradbury, Ray, 172, 189, 195 Firestarter compared to, 37–39 brain free will vs. fate in, 31–32 computers and, 65–66 The Green Mile compared to, 47–48 consciousness and, 22–25 Hearts in Atlantis compared to, fear and, 240–243 44–45 mind-body connection and, 29–31 mind-body connection and, 29–31 neural nets and, 69–70 natural and, 28–29 neurons/neurotransmission, 31, 32, neuroscience and, 34–37 65–66, 69–71, 237–238 and, 10–19 neuroscience, 34–37 plot of, 7–10 obsession and, 237–240 and, 15, 20, 39–44 vision and, 70–71 and, 19–21 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 255

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soul and, 25–28 Copenhagen interpretation, 148, cars, artificial intelligence and, 52–53, 195–196, 198–199 71–73 Copernican principle, 85 Carter, Jimmy, 236 Copernicus, 81 Catholic Church, 81, 115. See also curled-up dimension, 154–155 Christianity curved space-time, 145–146 causal determinism, 41–42 cybernetics, 61–62 Caves of Steel, The (Asimov), 58–59 Cybernetics (Wiener), 61–62 Cayce, Edgar, 12 cell division, 212–215 Danse Macabre (King), 241 Cell (King), 7, 45–46 Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and “Chains” (Frigyes), 109 Supernatural Horror (King), 185 chaotic eternal inflation, 193 Dark Tower, The (King), 131–132, 188 Chapman, Mark David, 236–237, 239 four-dimensional geometry and, Children of the Atom (Shiras), 17 136–142 Christianity, 25, 29. See also Catholic general relativity and, 145–150, Church 153–154, 158–159 chromosomes, 213–215 gravity and, 143–144 chronology protection conjecture, 181 Insomnia plot and, 134–136, 140, Churchill, Winston, 189 141–142 CIA, 14, 126–127 plot of, 132–134, 141–142, 142–143 , 20 quantum mechanics and, 146–150 “Clock That Went Backward, The” special relativity and, 144–145 (Mitchell), 167 string theory and, 152–159 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 99 unified field theory and, 150–156 Collision Course (Bailey), 173 Darling, David, 92 colloidal suspension, 223 Dartmouth College, 63 color force, 151 Day the Earth Stood Still, The, 83 computers, 62, 65–66, 69–73. See also Dead Zone, The (King), 23, 39–40 artificial intelligence De Camp, L. Sprague, 167–168, 169, conflict, evil and, 230–234 190 Confucianism, 43–44 Deep Blue, 64 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Del Rey, Lester, 56 Court, A (Twain), 167–168 Demaine, Erik, 184 consciousness Demolished Man, The (Bester), 17–18 Galen on, 24–25 demons, 27–28. See also evil mental and, 45–46 Dermagraft, 218 mind-body connection and, 29–31 Descartes, René, 21, 33, 41 precognition and, 39–44 Dick, Philip K., 18, 191 soul and, 21–23 Dirichlet (D) branes, 194 Consciousness Research Institute, 36 Disaster in Time, 170 Contact (Sagan), 84, 179–180 Dorai, Amal, 183 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 256

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Doubleday Books, 2 European Union, 73 Drake, Frank, 82–83 Everett, Hugh, III, 135–136, 182–183, Drake equation, 83–85, 87–91 194–198 Dreamcatcher (King) evil, 227–230 astrobiology and, 92–94 concept of, 231–232 Drake equation and, 82–91 conflict and, 230–234 flying saucer reports and, 82–83 demons and, 27-28 other stories about aliens, 94–101 fear and, 240–243 pluralism vs. plenitude themes, fuzzy logic and, 233–234 80–82 as genetic vs. intentional, 232–233 “Dreams in the Witch House, The” obsession and, 235–240 (Lovecraft), 140 Exorcist, The, 10 Drexler, Eric, 220–221, 224 exotic matter, 180, 198 dualism, 33–34, 41 Extra Sensory Perception (Rhine), 14 Duel, 51 Duke University, 14 faith healing, 47–48 Farhi, Edward, 184 eCall system, 73 Farley, Ralph Milne, 169 Eddington, Arthur, 145 fate, 31–32 Einstein, Albert, 42, 144–150, fear, 240–243 152–153, 156, 159, 175–177, 179 fermions, 151, 154, 156 Eldridge, Paul, 209–210 Feynman, Richard, 221 electromagnetic force, 151–152, 154, Finney, Jack, 97, 173 199–203 Firestarter (King), 37–39, 211 electrons, 152, 198 Fisher, R. A., 14 Elric series (Moorcock), 133 Fittest, The (McIntosh), 52 embryonic stem cells, 224–225 Flatland (Abbott), 137–141 Empire of the Air, The (England), flatness problem, 201–202 95–96 “Flight That Failed, The” (Hull), 190 Engines of Creation (Drexler), 220–221 flying saucers, 82–83 England, George Allan, 96 foot-and-mouth disease, 127 Enlightenment movement, 11 Ford Motor Company, 72–73 Epic of Gilgamesh, 209 Fort Riley, Kansas, 117 Epicurus, 25–26, 80 Foster, Jodie, 235–236 epiphenomenalism, 42 fourth dimension, 136–142, 154–155 EPR paradox, 148–149 Francis, Lee, 170–171 Erasistratus, 23 Frankenstein (film), 55 ESP (Extra Sensory Perception), 10, Frankenstein (Shelley), 4, 53–54, 104 14, 16–19, 20 free will, 31–32 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 98–99 French Academy of Sciences, 12 Euler, Leonhard, 153 French Royal Society of Medicine, 12 Euler-beta function, 153 Frigyes, Karinthy, 109 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 257

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From a Buick 8 (King), 185–187, telemerase and, 212–215 192–193 Goswami, Amit, 40–41 graceful exit problem, 202–203 Gaia, 28–29 “grandfather paradox,” 169, 182 Galactic Patrol (Smith), 16 grand unified theory, 200–203 Galen, 24–25 graphite, 223 Garcia, Jerry, 106 gravity, 143–146, 152, 176, 199–203 Garrett, Randall, 18 Great Plague of London, 112, 115 gauge bosons, 152 Green, Michael, 154–156, 157–158 Gell-Mann, Murray, 41, 151 Green Mile, The (King), 47–48, 110, general relativity, 42, 145–150, 206 153–154, 158–159, 175–176 GRP gene, 243 genetics Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 209 amygdalae inhibition and, 243 Gunslinger, The (King), 131–132 cures for disease and, 211–212 Guns of the South, The (Turtledove), evil behavior and, 232–233 191 in The Golden Years, 205–208, 219 Guth, Alan, 184, 199–203 nanotechnology and, 220–224 other fiction about immortality and, Hamilton, Edmond, 56, 96 209–211 Hannibal of Carthage, 123 oxidative stress and, 215–216 Harrison, Harry, 173 replaceable body parts and, 216–219 hauntings, 10 stem cell research and, 224–225 Hawking, Stephen, 158, 181 telemerase and, 212–215 Hawks, Howard, 96–97 Geneva Protocol, 124 Hearts in Atlantis (King), 44–45 geometric progression, 109–111 Heinlein, Robert A., 59–60, 141, 170, Geron Corporation, 212–213 172, 211 Gerrold, David, 173 Heisenberg, Werner, 147, 195–196 “Glass Floor, The” (King), 2 Heisenberg uncertainty principle, gluons, 152 147–148 glycation, 216, 225 “Helen O’Loy” (del Rey), 56 Gödel, Kurt, 176 herbicides, 126–127 Golden Years, The (King) Herophilus, 23 aging and, 207–209, 219–220 “He Walked around the Horses” genetic cures and, 211–212 (Piper), 190–191 nanotechnology and, 220–224 Hinckley, John W., Jr., 235–236, 239 other fiction about immortality and, Hitchcock, Alfred, 227–228, 235 209–211 Home, Daniel Dunglas, 12–13 oxidative stress and, 215–216 Homer, 209 plot, 205–208, 219 Hong Kong flu, 120 replaceable body parts and, 216–219 horizon problem, 201–202 stem cell research and, 224–225 Howell, John, 148–149 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 258

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Hsu, Stephen, 180 Kaluza, Theodor, 154–155 Hubbard, Al, 106 Kandel, Eric, 243 Hubble volume, 192 Keller, David H., 210 Hull, E. Mayne, 190 King, Stephen hyper, defined, 140 biographical information, 1–5 hyperspace, 141, 176, 179–180 horror genre and, 3 hypnotism, 11–12 themes about evil, 227–230 hypothalamus, 242 themes about morality, 98, 101 See also individual names of books and I Am Legend (Matheson), 104–105 short stories I Ching, 43–44 King, Tabitha Spruce, 2 If It Had Happened Otherwise (Squire), “King’s Garbage Truck” (King), 2 189 Klein, Oskar, 154–155 “If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Knight, Damon, 174–175 Gettysburg” (Churchill), 189 Koontz, Dean, 211 “I Killed Hitler” (Farley), 169 Krauss, Lawrence, 157, 159 immortality, 205–211, 219 Kuttner, Henry, 170 “immortality gene,” 212 Independence Day, 95 Laidlaw, Patrick, 120 “Infinity Zero” (Wandrei), 178 Langoliers, The (King), 175 inflation theory, 199–203 black holes and, 175–181 “In Hiding” (Shiras), 17 other time travel stories and, Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, The 166–175 (Rohmer), 15 plot of, 161–166 Insomnia (King), 134–136, 140, time travel theories and, 181–184 141–142, 206 Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 177 Institute of Psychiatry (London), 232 Large Hadron Collider, 159 International Journal of Astrobiology, 93 Last and First Men, The (Stapledon), Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 97 15 I, Robot (Asimov), 56 Last Man, The (Shelley), 103–104 I, Robot (Binder), 56–57 law of universal gravitation, 143–146, “It Happened Tomorrow” (Bloch), 57 152, 176, 199–203 It (King), 229–230 Legion of Time, The (Williamson), 190 Leibniz, Gottfried, 231 Jackson, Andrew, 100 Leinster, Murray, 58, 189–190 “Jameson Satellite, The” (Jones), 210 Lemaître, Georges, 199 Janifer, Laurence M., 18 Lennon, John, 236–237 “Jay Score” (Russell), 56–57 leptons, 152 Jones, Neil R., 210 Lest Darkness Fall (de Camp), Journal of Parapsychology, 14 167–168, 169, 190 , 12–13 Kaku, Michio, 93, 194, 201 Life Everlasting (Keller), 210 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 259

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Linde, Andrei, 202 mental telepathy, 19–20, 23, 45–46, 79 “Line to Tomorrow” (Kuttner), 170 Merritt, Abraham, 55 lithography, 223 Mesmer, Franz Anton, 11 “Logic Named Joe, A” (Leinster), 58 mesmerism, 11–13 Logic Theorist, 63 mesons, 151 longevity Metal Monster, The (Merritt), 55 aging process and, 207–209, Michell, John, 177 219–220 Midwich Cuckoos, The (Wyndham), 19 genetic cures and, 211–212 Milgram, Stanley, 109 in The Golden Years, 205–208, 219 Miller, P. Schuyler, 170 nanotechnology and, 220–224 mind-body connection, 29–31 oxidative stress and, 215–216 Mineta, Norman Y., 72 replaceable body parts and, 216–219 Minkowski, Hermann, 145 stem cell research and, 224–225 Misery (King), 241 telemerase and, 212–215 “Mist, The” (King), 3–4, 185–187, Long Loud Silence, The (Tucker), 192–193 104–105, 118 Mitchell, Edward Page, 167 long-term potentiation, 242 monopole problem, 200, 202 Lovecraft, H. P., 140 “Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, Lovelock, James, 28–29 The” (Serling), 97–98 Lowndes, Robert A. W., 2 Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The (Heinlein), 59–60 Maatha, Wangari, 129 Moon Pool, The (Merritt), 55 Machen, Arthur, 52 Moorcock, Michael, 133 Man in the High Castle, The (Dick), Moore, Catherine, 170 191 Moore, Ward, 189 Manning, Laurence, 210 morality, 98, 101, 234 Man Plus (Pohl), 60 More Than Human (Sturgeon), 18 Man Who Awoke, The (Manning), 210 Morris, Simon Conway, 94 Man Who Folded Himself, The Morse Code, 50, 51 (Gerrold), 173 M-theory, 136–142, 150, 156, 158, many worlds theory (Everett), 203 182–183, 194–198 multiverse concept, 132–134, 191–198 Massachusetts Institute of Technology My First Two Thousand Years (Viereck, (MIT), 183–184 Eldridge), 209–210 material monism, 42 Matheson, Richard, 104–105 Naked Sun, The (Asimov), 59 Maximum Overdrive, 4, 50 nanotechnology, 220–224 McCarthy, John, 63 NASA Astrobiology Institute, 92–93 McIntosh, J. T., 52 National Geographic, 93–94 McNamara, Robert, 128 Native Americans, 100–101, 124 mediums, 12–13 natural magic, 28–29 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 260

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negative feedback, 61–62 parallel worlds, 135–136, 187–188 Nerem, Robert M., 219 existence of, 198–203 neural nets, 69–70 in From a Buick 8, 185–187, 192–193 neuroscience, 34–37. See also brain multiverse concept vs. many worlds neutrons, 151 theory, 191, 192–198 Newell, Allen, 63 other stories about, 188–191 New Frontiers of the Mind (Rhine), in “The Mist,” 185–187, 192–193 14 See also time travel Newton, Isaac, 41–42, 143–146, 152, parapsychology, 10, 14, 20–21, 39–44. 176, 177 See also Carrie (King) New York Times, 212, 218 “Paratime Police” (Piper), 173 Nicholas of Cusa, 81 particle physics, 202 Night Shift (King), 49 Patrick, William C., III, 108 “Night Surf” (King), 241 Persinger, Michael, 239 Nishijima, Kazuhiko, 151 Phantoms (Koontz), 211 Nixon, Richard, 125 Phillips, Mark, 18 Novikov, Igor D., 181–182 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Nuffield Council on Bioethics Mathematica (Newton), 143 (London), 232 photoelectric effect, 147 photons, 146–147, 152 obsession, 235–240 Piper, H. Beam, 173, 190–191, 196 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Planck, Max, 147 239–240 plant growth regulators, 126–127 Occasion for Disaster (Phillips), 18 Plato, 21, 80 Odd John (Stapledon), 15 plenitude, 80–82 Odyssey (Homer), 209 Plot against America, The (Roth), 191 “On a Heuristic Viewpoint pluralism, 80–82 Concerning the Production and pneumonic plague, 112–113 Transformation of Light” Podolsky, Boris, 148 (Einstein), 146–147, 177 Pohl, Frederik, 60 “On the Motion—Required by the Popper, Karl, 41 Molecular Kinetic Theory of Prachett, Terry, 171–172 Heat—of Small Particles precognition, 15, 20, 39–45 Suspended in a Stationary Liquid” “Press Enter” (Varley), 60 (Einstein), 147 principle of mediocrity, 85 oracles, 42–44 Project Ozma, 84 “Other Tracks” (Sell), 190 Project Stargate (CIA, Defense Out Like a Light (Phillips), 18 Department), 14 oxidative stress, 215–216 protons, 151, 152 psionics, 10–14, 19–21 Page, Norvell, 17 phenomena, 11–14. See also “Paradise and Iron” (Breuer), 55 Carrie (King) bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 261

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psychokinesis, 10, 19–21, 36–37 septicaemic plague, 112 pulp fiction, 95–101, 169, 189–190 Serling, Rod, 97–98 pyrokinetic powers, 37–39 serotonin, 239–240 SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial quantum mechanics, 46, 146–150, 200. Life), 85, 88, 91 See also parallel worlds; time travel Seven Books on the Structure of the quarks, 151–152 Human Body (Vesalius), 27 Shakey (robot), 67 Randi, James, 13 shamanism, 48 Rare Earth (Ward, Brownlee), 87–91 Shelley, Mary, 4, 53–54, 103–104 Reagan, Ronald, 235 Shining, The (King), 3, 241 Recruiting Station (van Vogt), 190 Shiras, Wilmar, 17 Reichenbach, Carl, 12 Shope, Richard, 120 , 14 “Sideways in Time” (Leinster), “Rex” (Vincent), 55 189–190 Rhine, J. B., 14 Siegel, Don, 97 Ring around the Sun (Simak), 191 silane, 39 robots, 54–56, 58–59 Simak, Clifford, 191, 211 Rogers, E. Dawson, 13 Simon, Herbert, 63 Rohmer, Sax, 15 Singularity Institute for Artificial Rosen, Nathan, 148, 179 Intelligence, 75 Roth, Philip, 191 Sino-Japanese War, 124 rubidium, 39 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (game), R.U.R. (Capek), 54–55 109–110 Russell, Eric Frank, 56–57 Skeleton Crew (King), 185 Slan (van Vogt), 16–17 Saberhagen, Fred, 59 smallpox, 124, 129 Sagan, Carl, 41, 84–91, 179–180 “small-world effect,” 109 salamanders, 217–218 Smith, E. E., 16 Salem’s Lot (King), 2 Smith, Wilson, 120 Schachner, Nat, 189 Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Scherk, Joel, 153, 154 13–14, 15 Schrödinger, Erwin, 197–198 soul, 21–23, 25–29, 33–34 Schwarz, John, 153–154, 157–158 “Sound of Thunder, A” (Bradbury), Schwarzschild, Karl, 177–179 172, 189, 195 Schwarzschild radius, 177–179 Space Interferometry Mission, 93 Scientific American, 192, 238–239 space-time second sight, 15 continuum, 144–145 selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors curved, 145–146 (SSRIs), 240 Spanish flu pandemic, 116–119 self-consistency principle, 181–182 special relativity, 144–145, 175–176 Sell, William, 190 Sphereland (Burger), 138 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 262

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Spielberg, Steven, 98–99 telekinesis, 19–21 spontaneous breaking, 200 telepathy, 10 spontaneous combustion, 38–39 telomerase, 212–219 Spruce, Tabitha, 2 Termination Node, The (Gresh, Squire, John, 189 Weinberg), 67 Stand, The (King), 3, 229–230 Terminator (film series), 58, 75 AIDS and, 128–130 Terrestrial Planet Finder, 93 biological warfare and, 122–127 Terror, The (Machen), 52 geometric progression and, 109–111 That Sweet Little Old Lady (Phillips), historic pandemics and, 111–119 18 plot of, 103–108, 115–116 theodicy, 231 threat of future pandemics and, “theory of everything,” 150–156, 194 119–122 “There’s Plenty of Room at the Stapledon, Olaf, 15 Bottom” (Feynman), 221 Stars My Destination, The (Bester), 18 Thing, The, 96–97 Startling Mystery Stories, 2 This Immortal (Zelasny), 211 Star Trek, 59, 99 Thomas Aquinas, 26–27 Star Trek: The Next Generation, 58 Thompson, Bill, 2 stathmin, 243 Thorne, Kip, 179–180 stem cells, 224–225 Time and Again (Finney), 173 Strata (Prachett), 171–172 Time Machine, The (Wells), 168 Straub, Peter, 229 “Time Patrol” (Anderson), 172–173, Strecker, Robert, 128–130 192 “Strecker Memorandum” (Strecker), Times of London, 145 128–130 time travel, 189 string theory, 152–159, 193–194 black holes and, 175–181 strong nuclear force, 151–152, 199–203 chronology protection conjecture Sturgeon, Theodore, 18, 174–175 and, 181 sugar, 216, 222–223, 225 Everett’s many worlds theory and, supercomputers, 58 182–183 superforce, 200 in The Langoliers, 161–166 superstring theory, 157–159, 193–194 Novikov self-consistency principle supersymmetry, 156, 157–159, 159 and, 181–182 Swift, Jonathan, 209 other stories about, 166–175 Synthetic Men of Mars, The (Burrough), Time Traveler Convention and, 55–56 183–184 See also parallel worlds Taggert, Brian, 50 tissue regeneration, 216–219 Talisman, The (King, Straub), 188, 229 Tommyknockers, The (King), 229 Tavris, Carol, 234 astrobiology and, 92–94 Technicolor Time Machine, The Drake equation and, 82–91 (Harrison), 173 flying saucer reports, 82–83 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 263

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other stories about aliens, 94–101 Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration plot of, 77–80, 91–92 (VII) (U.S. Department of pluralism vs. plenitude themes, Transportation), 72 80–82 Veneziano, Gabriele, 153 top-down approach, 63–64 Vertigo (Hitchcock), 228, 235 Tourmalin’s Time Cheques (Anstey), 168 Vesalius, Andreas, 27 “Trucks” (King), 4 “Victory Unintentional” (Asimov), 57 artificial life and, 66–68 Viereck, George, 209–210 brain vs. computer and, 65–66 Village of the Damned, 19 computer science theory and, 62 Vincent, Bev, 133 cybernetics and, 61–62 Vincent, Harl, 55 early AI concepts and, 53–60 “Vintage Season” (Moore), 170 future of AI and, 73–76 viruses, 78–79, 91–92 future of automobiles and, 71–73 vision, 70–71 Maximum Overdrive, 4, 50 plot of, 49–53, 68–71, 73–76 Wandrei, Donald, 140, 178 top-down/bottom-up AI and, Ward, Peter F., 87–91 63–64 War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 94–95, TV movie, 4, 50 104 Tucker, Wilson, 104–105, 118, 211 weak nuclear force, 151–152, 199–203 Turtledove, Harry, 191 Weapon Makers, The (van Vogt), Twain, Mark, 167–168 210–211 Twilight Zone, The, 97–98 Weisinger, Mort, 56 Two Discourses Concerning the Soul of Wells, H. G., 94–95, 104, 168 Brutes (Willis), 36 Wheels of If, The (de Camp), 168 2001: A Space Odyssey, 59 white holes, 176 “Who Goes There” (Campbell), 96 ultraviolet (UV) light, 90 Wiener, Norbert, 61–62 University of Colorado, 212–213 Williamson, Jack, 57–58, 190 University of Oregon, 40–41 Willis, Thomas, 34–36 University of Southern California, Wilson, F. Paul, 2 156 witches, 27–28 Unknown, 169 With Folded Hands . . . (Williamson), U.S. Department of Transportation, 57–58 72 Witten, Ed, 136, 159 Utts, Jessica, 20 WMAP (Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe) satellite, 203 Vafa, Cumrun, 158 Wollheim, Donald, 59 Van Vogt, A. E., 16–17, 190, “world as machine” ideas, 41–42 210–211 World Health Organization (WHO), Varley, John, 60 121, 122, 128 vector bosons, 152 World Jones Made, The (Dick), 18 bindex.qxp 7/5/07 10:37 AM Page 264

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wormholes, 176, 179–181 “You’re Another” (Knight), Wounded Knee, 100 174–175 Wyndham, John, 19 Zelasny, Roger, 211 Yau, Shing-Tung, 154, 155 Zener, Karl, 14 “Yesterday Was Monday” (Sturgeon), “Zero A.D.” (Francis), 170–171 174–175 Zey, Michael, 212, 213