Exhibit Galleries :: Not So Weird ScienceScience fiction has provided inspiration for astronomers, physicists, biologists, engineers and other who push the boundaries of real science – and those scientists, in turn, have generated the inspiration for new trends in SF. This exhibit looks at real and fictional trends in miniature machines and smart materials as well as biological engineering to illustrate this relationship. The following is some suggested reading and viewing derived from the exhibit:
Books
| Title |
Author |
Year |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
1932 |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
1968 |
| The Biological Time-Bomb |
Gordon Taylor |
1970 |
| The Fifth Head of Cerberus |
Gene Wolfe |
1972 |
| The Iron Dream |
Norman Spinrad |
1972 |
| Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang |
Kate Wilhelm |
1976 |
| City of Truth |
James Morrow |
1992 |
| Man Plus |
Frederik Pohl |
1976 |
| Blood Music |
Greg Bear |
1985 |
| Engines of Creation |
Eric Drexler |
1987 |
| Cyteen |
C.J. Cherryh |
1988 |
| The Child Garden |
Geoff Ryman |
1990 |
| Jurassic Park |
Michael Crichton |
1990 |
| Queen City Jazz |
Kathleen Ann Goonan |
1994 |
| The Diamond Age |
Neal Stephenson |
1995 |
| Nanotech |
Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois |
1998 |
| Chasm City |
Alastair Reynolds |
2002 |
| House of the Scorpion |
Nancy Farmer |
2002 |
| Nothing Human |
Nancy Kress |
2002 |
| Prey |
Michael Crichton |
2002 |
| Stone |
Adam Roberts |
2002 |
| The Changeling Plague |
Syne Mitchell |
2003 |
| Crawlers |
John Shirley |
2003 |
Media
| Title |
Director/Producer |
Year |
| Frankenstein |
Dir. James Whale |
1931 |
| The Boys from Brazil |
Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner |
1978 |
| Blade Runner |
Dir. Ridley Scott |
1982 |
| Akira |
Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo |
1988 |
| Jurassic Park |
Dir. Steven Spielberg |
1993 |
| Star Trek: Voyager |
Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor |
1995- 2001 |
| Star Trek: First Contact |
Dir. Jonathan Frakes |
1996 |
| Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones |
Dir. George Lucas |
2002 |
