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Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics

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A selective list of short stories and novels from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific that use more or less accurate science. Useful for teaching or reinforcing astronomy or physics concepts:

http://www.astrosociety.org/education/resources/scifi.html

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Research Libraries

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Created by Hal Hall Read more »

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The first year I offered the Intensive English Institute on the Teaching of Science Fiction, a teacher from Buffalo, New York, asked me how many books a teacher should read in order to have a sound background for the teaching of science fiction. I said, offhand, about a hundred books and gave her a list Read more »

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Reading For the Future

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In her November article for GeekMom ( http://www.geekmom.com/2010/11/reading-for-the-future-uses-scifi-to-spar... ), Cie McCullough Buschle writes about Reading For the Future, a partner site which “offers resources and materials to help educators librarians and parents improve reading outcomes for students in grades K-12.” Check it out!

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Authors’ Papers and Manuscripts

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Read Hal Hall's introduction to the Major Authors Library Collections Inventory

View the Major Authors Library Collections Inventory (requires Microsoft Excel)

Find out where a science fiction author's original manuscripts, letters, and papers are located using the Major Authors Collection Inventory assembled by Hal Hall. The list is alphabetical by author's last name and contains listings to public and collegiate collections all over the world.

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SF Graduate Program

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This list contains several universities known to have graduate programs that specialize in science fiction studies. If you know of a school that has such a program and want to add it to our list, send the program's web address and a short (two or three paragraph) description of the program to the AboutSF Coordinator at info@aboutsf.com. Read more »