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The truth about superpowers…science fact or science fiction?
Superman, Batman, The X-Men, Flash, Spider Man…They protect us from evildoers, defend truth and justice, and, occasionally, save our planet from certain doom. Yet, how much do we understand about their powers?
In this engaging yet serious work, Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg attempt to answer that question once and for all. From X-ray vision to psychokinesis, invisibility to lightspeed locomotion, they take a hard, scientific look at the powers possessed by all of our most revered superheroes, and a few of the lesser ones, in an attempt to sort fact from fantasy. In the process, they unearth some shocking truths that will unsettle, alarm, and even terrify all but the most fiendish of supervillains.
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About the Authors
Lois H. Gresh, a computer specialist, designs tests for security loopholes. As a project engineer, she handles failures of hardware circuitry, microcode, and operating systems. As a programmer, she designs and codes corporate Web sites and systems. She’s written assembly language on numerous platforms, including routines to test the instruction set of a new CPU chip. She designed and coded Cobol/Fortran/JCL applications for federal and state welfare programs and for the US Department of Defense. She has firsthand knowledge of high-level corporate takeovers in the computer industry, as well as the culture and business operations of companies in Silicon Valley and Southern California. Also a fiction writer, she is the author of dozens of suspense and science fiction stories. Her story “Digital Pistil” won a national science fiction award. Six of her stories have been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon and Bram Stoker Awards. She lives in Rochester, New York.
Robert Weinberg has worked extensively in the suspense, horror, and science fiction fields. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Dark Love, Phobias, and David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible. He has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Balrog Awards and is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. He lives near Chicago.
About Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is an actor and award-winning audiobook narrator. He has won five Audie Awards from the Audio Publisher’s Association, fourteen Earphone Awards, and two Listen Up Awards from Publisher’s Weekly. He was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by AudioFile magazine. He has appeared on stage as well as in film and television, and he is a veteran voice actor who can be heard in numerous cartoons and video games. He is one of the founders of New York City’s Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning “reality play” Charlie Victor Romeo and A. R. McElhinney’s cult classic film A Chronicle of Corpses.