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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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Fallen World
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U-10
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Bob
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Moral Compass to Be, or Not to Be
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Reincarnated in an Alien's Body: Trapped on an Alien version of our Own Universe
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Phoenix (Queen's Avatar #1)
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Kaji Warriors: Shifting Strength
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The Gazebo (Series of Doors #1)
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A.C. Zito (Goodreads Author)
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The Planet Maker
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The Day I Killed God
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Leaving Safety (Safety Trilogy Book 1)
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The Weight of Dusk
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By The Icehawk's Feather
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The Forerunner (Vice Versa, #1)
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Hong on the Range
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
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Henry Gee (Goodreads Author)
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
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Airframe
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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Blue Screen: How Peter Gustafson Defragmented the World
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Kyle Benzle (Goodreads Author)
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| 118 |
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Energon (Energon #1)
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Sane Grace
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Oliver Phipps (Goodreads Author)
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An Orbiting Dilemma
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Dark (The Dark Trilogy #1)
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| 118 |
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In Times of Peace: Dance of Darkness and Light Episode 1
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The Loneliest Lone Wolf (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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| 118 |
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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Henry Gee (Goodreads Author)
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| 128 |
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The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
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Asa Don Brown (Goodreads Author)
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| 128 |
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A Hole in Texas
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| 128 |
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
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| 128 |
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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| 128 |
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Rats, Lice, and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues
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| 128 |
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Sanaa (Mother of Machines, #1)
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Tishaun Dawson (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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| 128 |
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The Rings of Hesaurun
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4.85 avg rating — 431 ratings
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| 128 |
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Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon—The Untold Story
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| 136 |
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Cantor's Dilemma
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The Naked Ape
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| 138 |
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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| 138 |
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
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| 138 |
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Final Theory (Final Theory, #1)
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| 138 |
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Ship Fever: Stories
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| 142 |
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Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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| 142 |
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
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The Soul of a New Machine
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| 144 |
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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| 146 |
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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| 146 |
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Signs Of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology
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| 148 |
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Two on a Tower
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| 149 |
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Toward the End of Time
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| 149 |
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The Invention of Air
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
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| 149 |
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With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
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| 149 |
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Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
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| 154 |
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
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| 154 |
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In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific
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| 154 |
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Mount Dragon
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 18,141 ratings
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| 157 |
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One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
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| 157 |
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On Human Nature
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| 159 |
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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| 160 |
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The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor
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Mark Schatzker (Goodreads Author)
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| 160 |
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One Station Away
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Olaf Olafsson (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 1,217 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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The End of October
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Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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| 165 |
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From Chocolate to Morphine
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Andrew Weil (Goodreads Author)
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| 165 |
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Unlocking the Past: How Archaeologists Are Rewriting Human History with Ancient DNA
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Salt: A World History
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| 168 |
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Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
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Alan Burdick (Goodreads Author)
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| 168 |
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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
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| 171 |
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The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth
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| 171 |
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The Sand-Reckoner
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| 171 |
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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| 171 |
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Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization
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Thief of Souls: A Novel
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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
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The Physician's Tale (The Plague Tales, #3)
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Double Blind
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The Planets
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Burning Road (The Plague Tales, #2)
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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The Plague Tales (The Plague Tales, #1)
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Ants, Indians, and Little Dinosaurs: A Celebration of Man & Nature for the 75th Anniversary of Natural History Magazine
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Alan Ternes (Editor)
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In the Shadow of Man
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Jane Goodall (Goodreads Author)
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Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome
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The Oxytocin Factor: Tapping The Hormone Of Calm, Love, And Healing
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters
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Jane Goodall (Goodreads Author)
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The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by Geiger, John (2010) Paperback
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Gorillas in the Mist
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Crypto-infections: Denial, Censorship and Suppression―the Truth About What Lies Behind Chronic Disease
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The Invisible Disease: The Dangers of Environmental Illnesses Caused by Electromagnetic Fields and Chemical Emissions
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The Drama of the Oceans
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Stopping Inflammation: Relieving the Cause of Degenerative Diseases
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The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease
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Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Warfare
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Kris Newby (Goodreads Author)
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England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases: The Hundred Years' War and Black Death
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Ed West (Goodreads Author)
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Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
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Samuel Milham (Goodreads Author)
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Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
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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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