DocFlamingo
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Hey all! This is just a brief list of resources that I found very helpful in writing my own book so I thought I’d post them in hopes others would also find them useful.
Books:
*Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of The Universe by Dr. Michio Kauka and Jennifer Trainer, published by Bantam Books, 1987. Getting on in years as these things go, I found this to be one of the easier of the M-Theory books to digest with my, admittedly, pitiful math skills.
* A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988. A bit esoteric, gave me a low-grade headache and a slight nosebleed, but well worth the effort. I understand a more reader-friendly edition is now out.
*Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. My favorite science writer! Solid info, well-explained for blockheads like myself.
*Dictionary of Mythology by Bergen Evans, published by Dell Books, 1970.
*The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene, Norton 1999. A good book but a little hard to digest for the layman, watching the television version on NOVA first might be helpful.
* The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene, Knopf, 2004. Why are these things always so long?
*Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics by Arthur C. Clarke, L. Harper & Brothers 1951. Excellent and well organized if a bit dated.
*Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
Television (American):
Nova Science Now on PBS, great stuff, as is The Elegant Universe, also by Nova. The History Channel, when on a Nazi break, has a fantastic show called The Universe. There’s often good fare on the Science Channel, when they’re not explaining how toothpicks are manufactured, and Discovery Channel is much like Science Channel but likes to show people eating bugs in the wilderness. Whatever . . .
Websites:
*Astronomy Nexus, The: http://astronexus.com/node/34
*Atlas of the Universe, An: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com
*Atomic Rocket: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html
*ChView: http://members.nova.org/~sol/chview
*The Classification of Stars: The Classification of Stars
*Electric Company: http://www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com
* Internet Stellar Database, The: http://www.stellar-database.com
*NOVA science NOW PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow
*Observatory, The: (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lyonesse/fiction.htm)
*Pirate Ring, The: http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/pirate
*Pirate’s Glossary of Terms: http://homepage.mac.com/crabola/PirateGlossary/Menu22.html
*Rare Earth: altvw102
*Relativity and FTL Travel: http://www.physicsguy.com/ftl/index.html
*Rocketpunk Manifesto: http://rocketpunk-manifesto.blogspot.com
*Science Channel website: http://science.discovery.com
*SolStation.com: SolStation.com
*StarDestroyer.Net: http://www.stardestroyer.net
*Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lyonesse/spaceguide.htm
Books:
*Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of The Universe by Dr. Michio Kauka and Jennifer Trainer, published by Bantam Books, 1987. Getting on in years as these things go, I found this to be one of the easier of the M-Theory books to digest with my, admittedly, pitiful math skills.
* A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988. A bit esoteric, gave me a low-grade headache and a slight nosebleed, but well worth the effort. I understand a more reader-friendly edition is now out.
*Death by Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. My favorite science writer! Solid info, well-explained for blockheads like myself.
*Dictionary of Mythology by Bergen Evans, published by Dell Books, 1970.
*The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene, Norton 1999. A good book but a little hard to digest for the layman, watching the television version on NOVA first might be helpful.
* The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene, Knopf, 2004. Why are these things always so long?
*Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics by Arthur C. Clarke, L. Harper & Brothers 1951. Excellent and well organized if a bit dated.
*Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
Television (American):
Nova Science Now on PBS, great stuff, as is The Elegant Universe, also by Nova. The History Channel, when on a Nazi break, has a fantastic show called The Universe. There’s often good fare on the Science Channel, when they’re not explaining how toothpicks are manufactured, and Discovery Channel is much like Science Channel but likes to show people eating bugs in the wilderness. Whatever . . .
Websites:
*Astronomy Nexus, The: http://astronexus.com/node/34
*Atlas of the Universe, An: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com
*Atomic Rocket: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html
*ChView: http://members.nova.org/~sol/chview
*The Classification of Stars: The Classification of Stars
*Electric Company: http://www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com
* Internet Stellar Database, The: http://www.stellar-database.com
*NOVA science NOW PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow
*Observatory, The: (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lyonesse/fiction.htm)
*Pirate Ring, The: http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/pirate
*Pirate’s Glossary of Terms: http://homepage.mac.com/crabola/PirateGlossary/Menu22.html
*Rare Earth: altvw102
*Relativity and FTL Travel: http://www.physicsguy.com/ftl/index.html
*Rocketpunk Manifesto: http://rocketpunk-manifesto.blogspot.com
*Science Channel website: http://science.discovery.com
*SolStation.com: SolStation.com
*StarDestroyer.Net: http://www.stardestroyer.net
*Tough Guide to the Known Galaxy: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lyonesse/spaceguide.htm
