Week 1: Cold Equations, hard sf.  Responses like Think Like a Dinosaur.
Assignments: Buy books.  Write response to the two stories.


Week 2: Discuss Cold equations...
Assignments:  Read introducion in Sheffield about getting the science right.

Light:  Lecture, Lady Vanishes, Light of Other Days, scenes from Predator,
night vision, thermal camera, that classic story with the traded spaceships

Space Travel and Relativity:

Gravity:  Orbits, gravity, tidal forces.  Stories: Neutron Star.
Video: clips from Armageddon, 2001, Apollo 13.

Time Travel

Writing a short story

Quantum Mechanics

Black Holes

Nanotech and the very small:  Blood Music, Outerlimits?

Twilight Zone episode of "The Star"

How Big is the Universe?