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"Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy?...

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Main Author: Van Riper, A. Bowdoin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2002.
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Online Access:Table of contents
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Summary:"Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes it all look easy Can scientists hope to accomplish such amazing feats in the real world, or are they merely flights of fancy? This book is a fun look of what can, and can't, be achieved with current technology in today's laboratory experiments."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:xvii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-302) and index.
ISBN:0313318220 (alk. paper)
9780313318221 (alk. paper)