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Chemistry and science fiction / Jack H. Stocker, editor.
- Title
- Chemistry and science fiction / Jack H. Stocker, editor.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, c1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.S35 C48 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Stocker, Jack H., 1924-
- Description
- xxii, 292 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Literature and science
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Literature and science > English-speaking countries
- Chemistry in literature
- Science fiction > Study and teaching
- Science fiction films > History and criticism
- Science fiction, English > History and criticism
- Science fiction, American > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / James Gunn -- An overview -- A science fiction primer for the uninitiated / Jack H. Stocker -- Science in science fiction : a writer's perspective / Connie Willis -- History and tradition -- The search for a definition of mankind : H.G. Wells and his predecessors / Ben B. Chastain -- Planetary chemistry in 100 years of science fiction / Mark A. Nanny -- Beryllium, thiotimoline, and pâté de fois gras : chemistry in the science fiction of Isaac Asimov / Ben B. Chastain -- The improbable properties of imipolex G : chemistry and materials science in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow / Carl Trindle -- Sherlock Holmes : the eccentric chemist / James F. O'Brien -- The right environment : using real chemistry as a basis for science fiction / Harry E. Pence -- On the covers of science fiction magazines / Jack H. Stocker -- The new media : television and the movies -- The endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline / Isaac Asimov -- Pâté de fois gras / Isaac Asimov -- Temporal chirality : the Burgenstock communication / Michael J.S. Dewar -- Encouraging creativity in the classroom -- Science fiction : a classroom resource / Jack H. Stocker -- Using science fiction to help teach science : a survey of chemists and physicists / Clarence J. Murphy, Mary Ann Mogus, Patricia M. Crotty -- Space, time, and education / John E. Arnold.
- ISBN
- 0841232482
- LCCN
- ^^^98004720^
- OCLC
- 38353728
- SCSB-11444642
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library