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Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality. Different Engines traces the way in which we've imagined the future.

Reverend NEIL HOOK is Associate Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of Glamorgan and an Anglican priest in the Welsh Mountains. Neil's research focuses on the relationship between science and science fiction. His work was recently profiled in the BBC's Science Fiction Britannia series. When not working Neil spends most of his life living in his own science fictional world where he is young, handsome and almost always saves the day. Professor MARK BRAKE holds a chair in science communication at the University of Glamorgan, UK, where he founded the world's first degree program on the historical interplay between space, science and culture. As an astrobiology and science fiction expert, he appears on and writes for TV and radio most weeks, including BBC, Sky Movies and the Discovery Channel; he is a consultant to the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle and the Australian Centre for Astrobiology. A founder member of NASA's Astrobiology Institute Communication Group, Mark feels we'll only settle the life on Mars debate by visiting the surface with a shovel.