History Main / FictionScience

* ''I'm Working On That'', yet another book about Star Trek inspiring science, taken from Creator/StephenHawking's comment on a tour of Star Trek sets, referring to the warp core.

* ''I'm Working On That'', yet another book about Star Trek inspiring science, taken from Creator/StephenHawking's comment on a tour of Star Trek sets, directed at the warp core.

* Averted in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series, where the chapters alternate between "story" and "science", and illuminate each other. In the story chapters, the wizards of Unseen University study a "Roundworld" they created that lacks magic and impossibly runs without [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality narrative causality]] - just scientific laws. The science chapters explain what's happening in the story - how scientists work, the formation of Earth, and so forth, serious explanations of the real science that the wizards have encountered. The writers mention this trope in the introduction, and say that they are not doing it. A more accurate name for the series would be "The Science of Roundworld" (i.e., ''our'' world), but [[MarketBasedTitle you know how it is...]]

* ThePhysicsOfSuperheroes by Dr. James Kakalios, who has also given physics advice to comic writers. The book is notorious in the fan community for proving that it was the whiplash from SpiderMan's web line that killed Gwen Stacy.

* Averted in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series, where the chapters alternate between "story" and "science", and illuminate each other. In the story chapters, the wizards of Unseen University study a "Roundworld" they created that lacks magic and impossibly runs without [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality narrative causality]] - just scientific laws. The science chapters explain what's happening in the story - how scientists work, the formation of Earth, and so forth, serious explanations of the real science that the wizards have encountered. The writers mention the FictionScience trope in the introduction, and say that they are not doing it. A more accurate name for the series would be "The Science of Roundworld" (i.e., ''our'' world), but [[MarketBasedTitle you know how it is...]]

* ''The Gospel According to {{Peanuts}}'' and ''The Parables of Peanuts''

* ''The Science of HisDarkMaterials''

* ''The Franchise/StarTrek: The Next Generation Technical Manual''

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* ''The Franchise/StarTrek : The Next Generation Technical Manual''

* ThePhysicsOfSuperheroes by Dr. James Kakalios, who has also given physics advice to comic writers. The book is notorious in the fan community for proving that it was the whiplash from {{Comicbook/Spider-Man}}'s web line that killed Gwen Stacy.

* ThePhysicsOfSuperheroes by Dr. James Kakalios, who has also given physics advice to comic writers. The book is notorious in the fan community for proving that it was the whiplash from {{Spider-Man}}'s web line that killed Gwen Stacy.

* ''What's Science Ever Done for Us?'' looks at TheSimpsons through a scientific lens.

* Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy® series: including ''StarWars'', ''{{Transformers}}'', {{superhero}}es, and their book of the [[ZombieApocalypse undead]].

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Where Science Fiction is the writing of stories derived from some form of extrapolation from the laws and theory of science, there is a subgenre of books which take well-established settings and worlds and take a documentarian, analytical view of how that setting fits into, illustrates, or contrasts with the "real world".

* ''The Tao of [[WinnieThePooh Pooh]]'' and the companion ''The Te of Piglet''

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* Averted in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series, where the chapters alternate between "story" and "science", and illuminate each other. In the story chapters, the wizards of Unseen University study a world they created that lacks magic and impossibly runs without [[TheoryOfNarrativeCausality narrative causality]] - just scientific laws. The science chapters explain what's happening in the story - how scientists work, the formation of Earth, and so forth, serious explanations of the real science that the wizards have encountered. The writers mention the FictionScience trope in the introduction, and say that they are not doing it.

* ''The Science of HarryPotter''

However, there is more than ample evidence to make the argument that a lot of it is either merchandising, trying to milk a franchise, or a FanWank gone horribly and publicly wrong. YourMileageMayVary.

* ''How [[StarTrek William Shatner]] Changed the World''
* ''The StarTrek : The Next Generation Technical Manual''

* ''The Religions of StarTrek''

* Averted in ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series in which alternate chapters contain a story in which the wizards of Unseen University study a world they created that lacks magic, and serious explanations of the real science that the wizards have encountered. The writers mention the FictionScience trope in the introduction, and say that they are not doing it.

* Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy® series: including Star Wars, Transformers, superheroes, and their book of the undead

* ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series alternates chapters between discussing science, and a story in which the wizards of Unseen University study a world they created that lacks magic. It even has an effect on the rest of the Discworld series, as Rincewind is promoted to Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography.

* ''The Science of Superheroes''
** The Science of Superheroes actually differs from most of the others in this category in that it is Science texbook first, superhero fan material second.

* ''TheScienceOfDiscworld'' series alternates chapters between discussing science, and a story in which the wizards of Unseen University study a world they created that lacks magic. It even has an effect on the rest of the Discworld series, as Rincewind is promoted to Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography.