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SCIENCE & LITERATURE--Together at Last
Only 50 years ago British historian C. P. Snow lamented that Science and the Humanities were two distinct and separate cultures. Today we may see them increasingly coming together. Please post here "science that reads like a novel", and "Novels based on real science" Science fiction is not out of bounds, but only if the science is hard and central to the story.
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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Cosmos
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Silent Spring
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A Brief History of Time
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Conjunction (The Wise Society, #1)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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The Selfish Gene
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Snow Crash
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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Connections
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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The Last Days of the Incas
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The Double Helix
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Next
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The Mismeasure of Man
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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A Terrace On The Tower Of Babel
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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Einstein’s Dreams
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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The Immense Journey
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The Star Thrower
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The Firmament of Time
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The World Without Us
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World, 1)
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Origins
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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My Life with the Chimpanzees
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The Silicon Jungle
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Trouble in Mind: Stories from a Neuropsychologist's Casebook
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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The Two Cultures
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Encounters with the Archdruid
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Arrowsmith
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A Tour of the Calculus
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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Of the Andromeda Martian Catastrophe
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Vegas Luna (Goodreads Author)
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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This Perfect Day
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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The Night Country
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All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life
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The Plague
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The Unexpected Universe
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The Invisible Pyramid
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain - for Life
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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
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Earth Abides
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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
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Dinosaur in a Haystack
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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
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Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1)
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Last Days of the Dinosaurs
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The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories
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Intuition
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The Tales of Astro Cat
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Flashblind
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Breathing for Two
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Wolf Pascoe (Goodreads Author)
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Memories With Maya
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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
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30 Days
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Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology Are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World
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Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights
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When the Earth Had a Moon: Part 1
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Flunky: Pawns and Kings
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Michael Rickard (Goodreads Author)
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A Fire Within (Sekret Machines #2)
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Beyond Infinity: A MatheMATTical Adventure
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Charles Ames Fischer (Goodreads Author)
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A Point of Honor
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To Mars With Love
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Dome
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Apr 03, 2010 07:07AM
I have trouble thinking of Michael Crichton's books as 'literature'...
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Hazel wrote: "I have trouble thinking of Michael Crichton's books as 'literature'..."Point taken. NEXT was not ready for publication IMO. On the other hand, Crichton may have known he was on short time when he wrote it. He's an Idea Man (PC: Idea Person), not a writer. Never was.
Thom wrote: "He's an Idea Man (PC: Idea Person), not a writer. Never was."Agreed. Great ideas.
I wouldn't think Frankenstein was out. Many regard it as the first work of science fiction (after Le Dernier Homme), but it is certainly literature, IMO.
Ok, I added it then. I thought maybe the "science" in it wasn't "hard" enough, as per your description above. Given that all we know is that Frankenstein took some body parts and stuck them together and used something....not sure what....(I think Shelley makes a reference to "galvinism" somewhere) to animate them. It didn't seem terribly realistic to me but I'll go with your ruling.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Ok, I added it then. I thought maybe the "science" in it wasn't "hard" enough, as per your description above. Given that all we know is that Frankenstein took some body parts and stuck them toget..."Allessandro Volta succeeded with electricity in making the limbs of a dead frog move, and this around 1793, if memory serves. So Mary Shelley was indeed aware of the "hard" science of the time....perhaps, I think, maybe, IMO.
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