Scientist Fiction
13 Oct 2001 15:57By which I mean novels about the research life and the creative travails of scientists. There are some good ones, though I daresay not enough...
- Recommended (examples):
- Andrea Barrett, Ship Fever
- A. S. Byatt, Angels and Insects [More exactly, the first story, Morpho Eugenia.]
- Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide [Brief remarks]
- Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith
- Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams
- Richard Powers, The Gold-Bug Variations
- To read:
- John Banville, The Revolutions Trilogy:
- Doctor Copernicus
- Kepler
- The Newton Letter
- Andrea Barrett
- Voyage of the Narwahl
- Servants of the Map
- James Blish, Doctor Mirabilis
- Rebecca Goldstein [Any relation of the Goldstein who wrote the
standard, but to my mind utterly horrible, textbook on classical mechanics?]
- The Mind-Body Problem
- The Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics
- Alan Lightman, Good Benito
- Richard Powers
- Galatea 2.2
- Operation Wandering Soul
- Plowing the Dark
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
- Philibert Schogt, The Wild Numbers [Review by Danny Yee]
