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- From: kkobayas@husc8.harvard.edu (Ken Kobayashi)
- Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary
- Subject: Re: Star Trek teaching
- Message-ID: <kkobayas.728115436@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:17:16 GMT
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- ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk (Mr R Burton-west) writes:
-
- >Um... this may seem kind of obvious, but what about giving them some Bob
- >Forward to chew over? At least you can be reasonably sure _his_ science is
- >plausible :)
-
- >Books (off the top of my head) are Dragon's Egg, Starquake, Flight of the
- >Dragonfly; possibly others?
-
- You forgot _Rocheworld_! Great book. Based on _Flight of the
- Dragonfly_. Most of his boks rely too heavily on the science, but they
- would make excellent teaching tools I think. Gregory Benford is very
- scientific too. He's an astronomer himself. _Heart of the Comet_ has
- almost everything, from orbital mechanics (even has diagrams) to biology.
- That's where I, an astronomy student, got interested in biology also.
- (well maybe exobiology:) Also all books by Arthur C. Clarke are scientific or
- philosophical or both.
-
- >
- >Roger Burton-West
- >"Don't flame me - I'm lost too."
-
-
- >FFForward to chew over?
-