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    Dylan Prendergast
    Science Department - Physics and Science Research
     
    Email: dprendergast@scarsdaleschools.org
    Office: 291A
    Phone: 721-2671 
     
     
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    Great science-related fiction:
    Diamond Age, Anathem, Seveneves, and Snow Crash, all by Neal Stephenson
    Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, all by Orson Scott Card
    2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey 2, both by Arthur C. Clarke 
    Dune, by Frank Herbert 
    The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir 
    Lock In, Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, and The Lost Colony, all by John Scalzi
    Neuromancer and Count Zero, by William Gibson 
    Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
    Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman
    Foundation, by Isaac Asimov 
    Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch
    The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore
    Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A Heinlein
    The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
    The Expanse Series, by James S. A. Corey
     
    Great science-related non-fiction: 
    Taking the Quantum Leap, by Alan Wolf
    Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard Feynman
    Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, by Werner Heisenberg 
    The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
    Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond 
    Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler
    The Alchemy of Air, by Thomas Hager
    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
    Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot