Figures in Literature and Science

Author Profiles

The figures profiled here have made contributions to a body of literature that spans literature and science. The profiles were prepared by students in LBST 491, Senior Seminar in Literature and Science, at California State University Fullerton. (Assignment)

These links will take you to the profiles (plain text indicates a figure scheduled to be profiled soon).

Writers who have contributed to the theory of Literature and Science:
       C.P. Snow
       John Brockman

Literary Figures Who Write About Science or Scientists:
       Douglas Adams
       Margaret Atwood
       Andrea Barrett
       Italo Calvino
       Don DeLillo
       Umberto Eco
       Aldous Huxley
       Alan Lightman
       Richard Powers
       Thomas Pynchon
       Mary Shelley
       Kurt Vonnegut

The "Third Culture" (Scientists who write for humanists):
       Daniel Dennett
       Carl Djerassi
       Richard Feynman
       Stephen Jay Gould

Science Popularizers (Writers who write for the masses):
       Rachel Carson
       K.C. Cole
       Timothy Ferris
       Stephen Hawking

Science Fiction Authors:
       Isaac Asimov
       Ray Bradbury
       Octavia Butler
       Arthur C. Clarke
       Philip K. Dick
       Harlan Ellison
       William Gibson
       Robert Heinlein
       Ursula K. Leguin
       Stanislaw Lem
       Larry Niven
       Jules Verne
       H. G. Wells
       Connie Willis

Alphabetical List of links for these Author Profiles.

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