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Just wondering if anyone's reading any fiction books that deal with astronomy. I picked up a copy of The Black Cloud by the astronomer Fred Hoyle. It's about a cloud of stellar dust that "lives" and is a conscious being thanks to static electrictly or something. Anyway it is from the point of view of an astronomer and has some basic astronomy references in it. It's a classy 1957 edition  .
But I don't know there's bound to be some other books out there with at least some astronomy basis. What about Galilio's Daughter, which is based on actual letters? That might recount his first sighting of the moons of Jupiter... Anyone know? If i wasn't such a slow reader, and lazy, I probably would have read it by now  .
I wish science fiction books had more real science and fewer silly human plots 
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Pretty much anything by real scientists (Heinlein, Asimov) would probably suit you well. For something a little more current you might try SF by NASA scientist Geoffrey Landis.
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I really like Ray Bradbury's books. The Martian Chronicles was a great read.
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If you are into quantum physics/cosmology, try Stephen Baxter. (Manifold Space or Manifold Time)
I read Mars by Ben Bova but was dissapointed. A mission to Mars and the crew gets scurvy? Arggg?? A 500 page description of the Martian landscape would have been more entertaining. 
Of course nobody can out do the master, Arthur C. Clarke. 
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I enjoyed reading Sobel's "Galileo's Daughter". Sobel's narrative style lets you fly through the pages pretty quickly, but don't expect this book to be anything other than a biography. Not much science here.
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Of course nobody can out do the master, Arthur C. Clarke.
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Carl Sagan wrote a novel called "Contact". He asked Kip Thorne for advice on wormholes.
The trouble is, in this area, truth is stranger (and more interesting) than fiction. Pick up a copy of Thorne's "Black Holes and Time Warps".
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If you are into quantum physics/cosmology, try Stephen Baxter. (Manifold Space or Manifold Time)
Could you give a brief synopsis of either of these two novels? I'm into that sort of stuff, and though I rarely read fiction I might be interested in something like this.
Thanks
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