Found 390 results for "Scientists in fiction"
The Big Four
by Agatha Christie
I have met people who enjoy a channel crossing; men who can sit calmly in their deck-chairs and, on arrival, wait until ...
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells
THE stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...
Angels & Demons
by Dan Brown
O maior estabelecimento de pesquisa científica do mundo – Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) –, na Suíç...
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious has...
Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Anyone living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a da...
Contact
by Carl Sagan
By human standards it could not possibly have been artificial: It was the size of a world.
The Time Traders
by Andre Norton
Ross Murdock wouldn't have seemed formidable to any one glancing casually at him as he sat within the detention cell.
Il sistema periodico
by Primo Levi
There are the so-called inert gases in the air we breathe.
Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis
The driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen.
The Red Thumb Mark
by R. Austin Freeman
CONFLAGRATAM An 1677. Fabricatarn An 1698. Richardo Powell Armiger Thesaurar." The words, set in four panels, which form...
Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
La torre, che in teoria non doveva esserci, affonda nel terreno in un punto appena prima che la foresta di pini neri fac...