Chemistry and science fiction /
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Washington, DC :
American Chemical Society,
c1998.
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Table of 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. Dewan
- 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, and Patricia M. Crotty
- Space, time, and education / John E. Arnold.
