'Star Wars: Where Science meets Imagination' Book
'Star Wars: Where Science meets Imagination' Book
I have been able to find this companion to the exhibition in Boston, co-published by National Geographic & Lucas Books. This book is a HC and has 208 pages. I will add more additional and detailed comments about this book in the future.
The first thing that comes to your mind is that this is a beautiful book. It's in danger to become completely forgotten in the wild 'Star Wars'-book autumn (why are there so many important books in a few months?). Some people may not know it exists and will want to get other books first.
The book has two main parts (there is also an intro by Anthony Daniels). The first part is about technology in general and the world of 'Star Wars'. There are chapters like: 'Space, time and Star Wars', 'Living on Coruscant' & 'Making the Jump to Lightspeed'. The 2nd chapter is about robots and robot like aspects such as A.I, cybernetics & 'human-robots relations'.
'WSMI' has many beautiful full color photos from the 'Star Wars'-saga and even features some very nice galleries of ships and droids. I do fear though that the texts will not always be easy to read and to understand. It seems very scientifically with terminations we might not be familiar with about robotics, electronics and physics. So I hope the text will not be too difficult or a bit boring for the average reader. Many known scholars have written chapters in this book, as did some of ILM's supervisors like Rob Coleman.
It seems that this companion wants to compare the technology in 'SW' to our own technology. When are prosthetics used, how far are we to developing an independent working robot, what's the deal with Ion drives, what urban architecture looks like Coruscant, etc... So it seems very interesting indeed.
'Star Wars: Where Science meets Imagination' can be compared with 'Star Wars: Magic of Myth'. But now, science replaces mythology. Two completely opposite concepts on earth, but 'Star Wars' has them both.
It does seem a bit strange that Curtis Saxton (who writes the 'Cross Section'-books and who is a theoretical astrophysicist) wasn't evolved in the creating of this book.
StarWars.Com Feature
I have been able to find this companion to the exhibition in Boston, co-published by National Geographic & Lucas Books. This book is a HC and has 208 pages. I will add more additional and detailed comments about this book in the future.
The first thing that comes to your mind is that this is a beautiful book. It's in danger to become completely forgotten in the wild 'Star Wars'-book autumn (why are there so many important books in a few months?). Some people may not know it exists and will want to get other books first.
The book has two main parts (there is also an intro by Anthony Daniels). The first part is about technology in general and the world of 'Star Wars'. There are chapters like: 'Space, time and Star Wars', 'Living on Coruscant' & 'Making the Jump to Lightspeed'. The 2nd chapter is about robots and robot like aspects such as A.I, cybernetics & 'human-robots relations'.
'WSMI' has many beautiful full color photos from the 'Star Wars'-saga and even features some very nice galleries of ships and droids. I do fear though that the texts will not always be easy to read and to understand. It seems very scientifically with terminations we might not be familiar with about robotics, electronics and physics. So I hope the text will not be too difficult or a bit boring for the average reader. Many known scholars have written chapters in this book, as did some of ILM's supervisors like Rob Coleman.
It seems that this companion wants to compare the technology in 'SW' to our own technology. When are prosthetics used, how far are we to developing an independent working robot, what's the deal with Ion drives, what urban architecture looks like Coruscant, etc... So it seems very interesting indeed.
'Star Wars: Where Science meets Imagination' can be compared with 'Star Wars: Magic of Myth'. But now, science replaces mythology. Two completely opposite concepts on earth, but 'Star Wars' has them both.
It does seem a bit strange that Curtis Saxton (who writes the 'Cross Section'-books and who is a theoretical astrophysicist) wasn't evolved in the creating of this book.
StarWars.Com Feature
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