Bill Webber
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Neil deGrasse Tyson:
Gm Neil...in your opinion, what are "the best" sci-fi books for people actually trained in science? I loved "Contact" (of course) and recently did a google-search on my question above. As a result I'm currently reading "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin. FWIW my undergrad degree was in Physics/Astrophysics...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Three Body Problem is a good one. Don't forget to see my overview on the actual 3-body problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfID...
Otherwise, I'm a bit old-school. Sci-fi seems to make great short stories. One from Isaac Asimov comes to mind: Nightfall (1941), and two from Arthur C Clarke: The Sentinel (1951) and the Star (1955), I think about those often, the first of which served as taproots for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Also, Philip K, Dick's Minority Report (1956) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), both of course becoming films, the second as Bladerunner (1982).
-NDT
Otherwise, I'm a bit old-school. Sci-fi seems to make great short stories. One from Isaac Asimov comes to mind: Nightfall (1941), and two from Arthur C Clarke: The Sentinel (1951) and the Star (1955), I think about those often, the first of which served as taproots for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Also, Philip K, Dick's Minority Report (1956) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968), both of course becoming films, the second as Bladerunner (1982).
-NDT
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