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Selected Readings for Literature and Science While course designations, teaching styles, educational objectives, student backgrounds, and other factors vary enormously, this bibliography is intended for teachers designing courses on literature and science or for students who wish to read further. Suggestions for additions to this list are welcomed. Abbott, Edwin. The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Alpert, Mark. Final Theory. Angier, Natalie. The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life. Appleman, Phililp. Apes and Angels. ---. Darwin's Ark. Arnold, Matthew. “Literature and Science.” Barrett, Andrea. Servants of the Map: Stories. ---. Ship Fever. ---. The Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel. Bear, Greg. Blood Music. Becker, Anne. The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005, etc. [Series] The Best American Science Writing 2005, etc. [Series] Bierce, Ambrose. "The Ancestral Bond." ---. "Natura Benigna." ---. "A Study in Determinism." Boyd, William. Brazzaville Beach. Boyle, T. C. Descent of Man: Stories. Brookmyre, Christopher. Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks. Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything. Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. Cajal, Santiago Ramon y. Vacation Stories: Five Science Fiction Tales. Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. ---. T Zero. Card, Orson Scott, ed. Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century. Chapman, Matthew. Trials of the Monkey. Chrichton, Michael. Prey. ---. Timeline. Collins, Wilkie. Heart and Science. Conant, Jennet. 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos. Darwin, Charles. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-1882. ---. The Voyage of the Beagle. Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. ---. The Selfish Gene. ---. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder. Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Djerassi, Carl. Cantor's Dilemma: A Novel. Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Creeping Man.” Einstein, Albert. Ideas and Opinions. ---. The World as I See It. Eiseley, Loren. The Star Thrower. Feynman, Richard P. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. ---. The Pleasures of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman. Firlik, Katrina. Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside. Forster, E. M. "The Machine Stops." Gamow, George. (Russell Stannard, ed.) The New World of Mr. Tompkins. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Goldsmith, Barbara. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie. Goodman, Allegra. Intuition. Gould, Stephen J. Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History. ---. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections on Natural History. Halperin, James. First Immortal. Hardy, Thomas. Two on a Tower. Hartwell, D. and K Cramer, eds. The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF. ---. The Hard SF Renaissance. Hawking, Stephen W. A Briefer History of Time. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “The Birthmark.” ---. “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment.” ---. “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Høeg, Peter. The Woman and the Ape. Hoffmann, Roald. The Same and Not the Same. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "Crime and Automatism.” ---. "Mechanism in Thought and Morals.” Hunt, Samantha. The Invention of Everything Else. Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. ---. Literature and Science. Huxley, Thomas Henry. “Science and Culture.” Iagnemma, Karl. On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction. ---. The Expeditions. Kehlmann, Daniel. Measuring the World. Konner, Melvin. Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School. Lethman, Jonathan. As She Climbed Across the Table. Le Guin, Ursula K. “Schrödinger’s Cat.” Levi, Primo. The Periodic Table. Levin, Janna. A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines. Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. Lightman, Alan. Einstein’s Dreams: A Novel. ---. Dance for Two. ---. Good Benito. ---. A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit. Lodge, David. Thinks. Loeb, Jacques. "Mechanistic Science and Metaphysical Romance." London, Jack. Before Eden. Lucretius. The Nature of Things. Mawer, Simon. Mendel's Dwarf. McCormmach, Russell. Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist. McDonald, Roger. Mr. Darwin's Shooter. Menger-Anderson, Kirsten. Doctor Olaf Van Schuler's Brain. Mitchell, S. Weir. The Autobiography of a Quack and Other Stories. ---. Constance Trescot: A Novel. Norris, Frank. "A Case for Lombroso.” ---. "Lauth." ---. "The Puppets and the Puppy." ---. "Reversion to Type." Otis, Laura, ed. Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. Ottaviani, Jim, et al. Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards. ---. Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists. ---. Suspended In Language: Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries, and the Century He Shaped. ---. Two Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists. Powers, Richard. The Echo Maker. ---. Galatea 2.2: A Novel. Preston, Douglas. Blasphemy. Pynchon, Thomas. “Entropy.” Reynolds, Richard and John Stone, eds. On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays. Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Sagan, Carl. Contact. ---. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. ---. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence. Schine, Cathleen. The Evolution of Jane. Self, Will. Great Apes. Selzer, Richard. The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays. ---. Mortal Lessons. ---. The Whistler's Room: Stories and Essays. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. ---. The Last Man. Skinner, B. F. Walden Two. Smith, Neil. Bang Crunch. Knopf Canada, 2007. Snow, C. P. “The Case of Leavis and the Serious Case.” ---. “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” ---. “The Two Cultures: A Second Look.” Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Jr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stewart, Ian. Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Strickland, Stephanie. True North. Tennyson, Alfred. "By an Evolutionist" (1889) ---. "Lucretius" (1865) ---. "Vastness" (1885) Thomas, Lewis. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony. ---. The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. ---. The Medusa and the Snail. Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. ---. "Man's Place in the Animal World.” ---. "Was the World Made for Man?" ---. What Is Man? Vonnegut, Kurt. Galápagos. Warrick, P., C. Waugh and M. Greenberg, eds. Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology. Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Wells. H. G. "The Apple." ---. "The Crystal Egg." ---. The Invisible Man. ---. The Island of Doctor Moreau. ---. The First Men in the Moon. ---. "The Lord of the Dynamos." ---. "The New Accelerator." ---. "The Stolen Bacillus." ---. The War of the Worlds. Williams, W. C. The Doctor Stories. Wilson, E. O. Consilience. Winterson, Jeannette. Gut Symmetries. Wouk, Herman. A Hole in Texas. Zola, Emile. "The Experimental Novel."
Plays: Adams, John and Peter Sellars. Doctor Atomic. [opera] Auburn, David. Proof: A Play. Brecht, Bertolt. Galileo. Trans. Charles Laughton. Ed. Eric Bentley. Brenton, Howard. The Genius. Brook, Peter. The Man Who. Čapek, Karel. R.U.R. Churchill, Caryl. A Number. D'Andrea, Paul and John Klein. The Einstein Project. Djerassi, Carl and David Pinner. Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views. Djerassi, Carl and Roald Hoffmann. Oxygen. Durrenmatt, Friedrich. The Physicists. Trans. James Kirkup. Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. Frayn, Michael. Copenhagen. Friel, Brian. Molly Sweeney. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Gorky, Maxim. The Children of the Sun. Hawdon, Robert. God and Stephen Hawking. Ibsen, Henrik. An Enemy of the People. Jonson, Ben. The Alchemist. Kipphardt, Heinar. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E. Lee. Inherit the Wind. Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. Martin, Steve. Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Parnell, Peter. QED: A Play. Reingold, Jaquelyn. String Fever. Shadwell, Thomas. The Virtuoso. Shaw, Bernard. The Doctor's Dilemma. Sherman, Jonathan Marc. Evolution. Sinclair, Upton. A Giant's Strength. Stephenson, Shelagh. An Experiment With an Air Pump. Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia. ---. Hapgood. Wertenbaker, Timberlake. After Darwin. Whitemore, Hugh. Breaking the Code. Whittell, Crispin. Darwin in Malibu. Wilder, Thornton. The Skin of Our Teeth: A Play. Wilson, Lanford. Rain Dance.
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