How Science Shapes Science Fiction

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.

• 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