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physicists who wrote science fiction
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Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948)

physicist, astrophysicist

  • California Institute of Technology, Princeton University

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Einstein's dreams
Dance for two
Great ideas in physics
The Discoveries
A Sense of the Mysterious
The discoveries
Time travel and Papa Joe's pipe
Origins
A modern day Yankee in a Connecticut court
The Accidental Universe
The Best American Science Writing 2005
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Probable Impossibilities
Searching for stars on an island in Maine
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Shuang ren wu
The diagnosis
Good Benito
Time for the stars
Reunion
Song of two worlds
Reunion
Ghost
Problem book in relativity and gravitation
The best American essays 2000
Ancient light
Quantum Legacies
Beauty and the Brain
Greyhounds
Die Diagnose
Zeit für die Sterne
In praise of wasting time
Screening room
Southern Writers on Writing
Mr G A Novel About The Creation
Living with the Genie
Revealing the universe
Screening Room
Good Benito
Ancient Light
Origins
The world is too much with me
Ghost
Mr g
Song of Two Worlds
Ada and the Galaxies
Mr. g
Yildizlarin Zamani
Good Benito
Los sueños de Einstein
Living with the Genie
Dance for Two
Senhor D.
Bay Tanri
Einstein'in Dusleri
Ghost
The accidental universe
Những giấc mơ của Einstein
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine Lib/E
Ta oneira tou Ainstain =
Einstein's Dreams
In Praise of Wasting Time
Revealing the universe
Luz antigua
Aḥlām Aynshtāyin
Three Flames
Catherine Asaro
Catherine Asaro (born 1955)

physicist, dancer, ballet dancer

  • Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles

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Infinite Stars
Ascendant Sun
The final key
The Quantum rose
The Last Hawk
Catch the lightning
Irresistible Forces
Schism
The moon's shadow
Nebula awards showcase 2013
The radiant seas
Primary Inversion
Carnelians
The Ruby Dice (Skolian Empire)
Undercity
Alpha (Sunrise Alley)
The Radiant Seas
Spherical harmonic
The Bronze Skies (Major Bhaajan series Book 2)
Schism
The Radiant Seas (Skolian Web)
Radiant Seas Saga of the Skolian Empire
Diamond Star (Skolian Empire)
Carnelians
The Misted Cliffs
The charmed sphere
Best New Paranormal Romance
Alpha
Charmed Destinies
The Phoenix code
Skyfall
The Fire Opal (Lost Continent)
The veiled web
The night bird
The Lost Continent Collection
The Moon's Shadow
Vanished Seas
Skyfall
The Night Bird
The Fire Opal
The veiled web
The Misted Cliffs
The Dawn Star
The charmed sphere
Skyfall
Spherical Harmonic
Diamond star
Sunrise Alley
Primary Inversion Saga of the Skolian Empire
The Dawn Star (Misted Cliffs, Book 3)
Quantam Rose
Spherical Harmonic
Sunrise Alley
Fire Opal
Catch the Lightning
Misted Cliffs
Night Bird
Sunrise alley
Primary Inversion
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1999 Double Issue
The Final Key
Catch The Lightning
The Phoenix Code
Dawn Star
Aurora in four voices
Das Sternenreich von Skolia. Jäger des Lichts
Aurora in four voices
Das Sternenreich von Skolia 01. Der PSI- Faktor
Hal Clement
Hal Clement (1922-2003)

astronomer, aircraft pilot, teacher

  • Boston University, Harvard University

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Foundation’s Friends
Writing science fiction and fantasy
One Hundred
Where do we go from here?
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 25 (1963)
Mission of gravity
The nitrogen fix
Star light
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Second Series
Cycle of fire
Small changes
Fossil
Close to critical
Heavy planet
The Essential Hal Clement Volume 2
Mission of Gravity
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 4 (1942)
Needle (also published as From Outer Space )
Noise
Half Life
The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
Hal Clement Sf Gateway Omnibus Iceworld Cycle Of Fire Close To Critical
Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow
Small Changes
Star light
Ocean on Top
The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3
Needle
Noise
Mission Of Gravity: Mesklinite Book 1 (S.F. Masterworks)
Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories
Natives of Space
First flights to the moon
Iceworld
Mission of gravity
Hal Clement's Needle
The 11th Science Fiction MEGAPACK®: 36 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories
Half life
Still River
Close to Critical
Where Do We Go From Here? Book 2
Where Do We Go From Here? Book 1
Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952. Birthday Party Issue (Volume 5, No. 1)
Needle
Iceworld
Left of Africa
Satellite Science Fiction, February 1957
Iceworld
Cycle of Fire
Men of the Morning Star & Planet for Plunder
Das Fossil
Hot Planet
Some Notes on Xi Bootis
Heavy Planet: Mission of Gravity and Star Light
Left of Africa
The Best of Hal Clement
Time Trap, The, & The Lunar Lichen
Galaxy Magazine, August 1963 Conclusin of Simak's WAY STATION (Volume 21, No. 6)
Intuit
Agir Görev
The Essential Hal Clement Volume 1
GRAINS DE SABLE
Through the eye of a needle
Amazing Stories Volume 117
Nitrogen Fix
SCHWERE WELTEN
MISSION OF GRAVITY
Isaac's universe
Space Lash (formerly Small Changes)
The Best of Hal Clement
Fossil
The Best of Hal Clement
Needle
Intuit
Das Nadelöhr
Die Flüsse der Tiefe
The Ranger boys in space
Still river
Worlds of If Science Fiction, August 1966 (Volume 16, No. 8)
Two source units in astronomy
Ocean on Top
Natives of Space
Robert L. Forward
Robert L. Forward (1932-2002)

physicist, astrophysicist

  • University of Maryland

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Great Science Fiction
Camelot 30K
Timemaster
Saturn rukh
Dragon's egg
Starquake
Marooned on Eden
Saturn Rukh
Indistinguishable From Magic
Return to Rocheworld
The flight of the dragonfly
Martian Rainbow
Rescued from Paradise
Dragon's egg
Mirror Matter
Rocheworld
Return to Rocheworld
Huevo del dragón
Flight of the Dragonfly
The owl
Ocean Under the Ice
Meʻof ha-Shapirit
Das Drachenei
Martian Rainbow
Dragon's Egg/Starquake
Dragon's Egg
La magie du futur
Estrellamoto
Indistinguishable from magic
El Mundo de Roche
Janusz Zajdel
Janusz Zajdel (1938-1985)

nuclear physicist

  • University of Warsaw

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Tales from the Planet Earth
Limes inferior
Wyjście z cienia
Paradyzja
Prawo do powrotu
Cylinder van Troffa
Dziwny nieznany świat
Ten piękny dzień
Ogon diabła
Relacja z pierwszej ręki
Dokad jedzie ten tramwaj?
Cała prawda o planecie Ksi
Residuum
Wyższe racje
Felicitas
Systemy eksploatacji krajowych rud żelaza
Lalande 21185
Geoffrey A. Landis
Geoffrey A. Landis (born 1955)

flight engineer, engineer, astronomer

  • Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Launch Pad
Geoffrey A Landis: Short Stories, Volume 1
Mars Crossing: An Epic of Survival on the Red Planet
Isaac Asimov's Moons
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Ultimate Zombie
Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers
The New Hugo Winners
Red Sky
A Walk in the Sun
Futurs à gogos
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two: an international anthology of prose and verse
Laser beamed power
Deposition and characterization of ZnS/Si heterojunctions produced by vaccum evaporation
LE SULTAN DES NUAGES
The Year's Top Short SF Novels
Cat Tales 2
Garrett Putnam Serviss
Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929)

astronomer

  • Cornell University

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Edison's conquest of Mars
The war of the Wenuses
The Second Deluge
The Complete War of the Worlds
The moon metal
Columbus of Space
How to use the Popular science library
Popular science library
Astronomy with the naked eye
Pleasures of the telescope
Astronomy with an opera-glass
Round the year with the stars
Curiosities of the Sky
Other Worlds
Science Fiction of America's Gilded Age
Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 4
Astronomy in a nutshell
Costello solar demonstrating globe
Garrett P. Serviss' Science Fiction
Astronomy with the Naked Eye (1908)
Eloquence
The Einstein theory of relativity
Martian Megapack
The moon
What the victory or defeat of Germany means to every American
Invasion of Mars
A Columbus of Space and The Moon Metal
The story of the moon
Lu chen
Tian wen qian shuo
Astronomy with an opera-glass
Otto Willi Gail
Otto Willi Gail (1896-1956)

physicist, journalist

  • Technical University of Munich

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