Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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Renowned physicist and broadcaster Prof Jim Al-Khalili has just written his first work of fiction, the sci-fi novel Sunfall. So he joins Robin and Bec in studio to talk about what that experience was like, making sure the science is right in fiction, favourite sci-fi authors and much more.
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Reading List
Jim recommends:
Life on the Edge by Jim Al-Khalili
The work of Arthur C Clarke
The work of Isaac Asimov
The work of Robert Heinlein
The Born-Einstein Letters by Albert Einstein and Max Born
The work of Richard Feynman
The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Robin recommends:
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed by Jim Al-Khalili
Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Artemis by Andy Weir
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
July 20 2019 by Arthur C Clarke
The work JG Ballard
The work of Margaret Atwood
The work of Kazuo Ishiguro
Bec recommends:
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor
Better Than Life by Grant Naylor
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
God is Disappointed in You by Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler
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