Re: Star Trek teaching

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From: Ken Kobayashi
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:17

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ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk (Mr R Burton-west) writes:

>Um... this may seem kind of obvious, but what about giving them some Bob
>Forward to chew over?  At least you can be reasonably sure _his_ science is
>plausible :)

>Books (off the top of my head) are Dragon's Egg, Starquake, Flight of the
>Dragonfly; possibly others?

   You forgot _Rocheworld_!  Great book.  Based on _Flight of the
Dragonfly_.  Most of his boks rely too heavily on the science, but they
would make excellent teaching tools I think.  Gregory Benford is very
scientific too.  He's an astronomer himself.  _Heart of the Comet_ has
almost everything, from orbital mechanics (even has diagrams) to biology. 
That's where I, an astronomy student, got interested in biology also. 
(well maybe exobiology:)  Also all books by Arthur C. Clarke are scientific or
philosophical or both.

>                        
>Roger Burton-West
>"Don't flame me - I'm lost too."

>FFForward to chew over?

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