From rocket science and exoplanet ecology to time travel and alien encounters, dive into the real scientific principles that inspire and support great science fiction stories.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Science and Fiction! The Wayfarers Series
- 02: Cheating the Science: Protector
- 03: Prediction: From the Earth to the Moon
- 04: World-Building in The Left Hand of Darkness
- 05: Advanced World-Building in Avatar
- 06: Action and Reaction in The Avengers
- 07: Space Travel and 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 08: Interplanetary Travel and The Martian
- 09: Space Battles and Energy Weapons: Star Wars
- 10: Advanced Rocket Systems in Star Trek
- 11: Relativity and Time for the Stars
- 12: Black Holes, Wormholes, and Interstellar
- 13: Time Travel and Doctor Who
- 14: Teleportation and Star Trek
- 15: Cyberspace and the Singularity: Neuromancer
- 16: Steampunk Science and Leviathan
- 17: Design Your Own Dragon: Game of Thrones
- 18: Planetary Ecology in Dune
- 19: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Contact
- 20: UFOs, ESP, and The X-Files
- 21: Social Sciences and the Foundation Series
- 22: Designed Languages and Arrival
- 23: Cosmology, the Mind, and Star Maker
- 24: Science Fiction’s Purpose: Childhood’s End
Taught by
Charles L. Adler
