Astronomy and Science Fiction
by Rob - January 29th, 2019.Filed under: Talks.
On Saturday, January 26, 2019, I had the privilege of giving this year’s Paul Sykes Memorial Lecture to the Vancouver Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
My topic was “Astronomy and Science Fiction” and during the talk I mentioned the following SF novels (listed in italics) and short stories (listed in quotation marks):
- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
- Arthur C. Clarke, “The Nine Billion Names of God”
- Arthur C. Clarke, “The Star”
- Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity
- Larry Niven, “Neutron Star”
- Robert L. Forward, Dragon’s Egg
- James Gunn, The Listeners
- Robert J. Sawyer, Starplex
- Robert J. Sawyer, Rollback
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February 2nd, 2019 at 2:59 pm
[…] Robert J. Sawyer gave a great talk at our Paul Sykes Lecture last week that featured the relationship between science/astronomy and science fiction. Robert has written many science fiction books with astronomy themes and here is a list of six real stars that have appeared in Robert’s books. Most are visible with the naked-eye from a dark site where the limiting magnitude is often 5.0 or fainter, but some are only visible from the southern hemisphere. […]