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Five Books Whose Physics Broke My Head Open

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This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole -- and a jet of hot gas, called plasma.
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Artist's conception of light-speed space travel
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Six SF Novels (and One Song) Built Around Space Travel and Time Dilation

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Not On Your Life: Six Means of SF Transportation I Would Not Use

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How a Mathematician Created the Interstellar Travel in Arrival in One Night

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Timeless and Time Travel: Is It Possible?

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Announcing Cixin Liu’s Next Book: Ball Lightning

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The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu
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Desolate Plain at Dawn: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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Christopher Nolan Had to Pick and Choose Which Wormhole Science to Use in Interstellar

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Einstein Was the Luckiest Science Fiction Writer Ever

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Brain Knowledge & Heart Knowledge: Genius, by Steven T. Seagle & Teddy Kristiansen

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The Time Traveling Physicist

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One Tuesday with Freeman

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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