These are offered free of charge, I have no claim no them, no strings are attached.įor good examples of science fiction stories based around accurate astronomy, check out the free online anthology Diamonds in the Sky. SF writers are encouraged to use these to brainstorm something interesting. As a public service, I offer a random selection of real astronomical items that are anomalous, suspicious, or downright odd. For science fiction, the weirder the bit of reality used, the better. Science fiction writers often benefit from using reality as a springboard. So, science fiction writers reading this: don't make the Good Doctor's mistake. In its preface he ruefully noted if instead of thinking like a science essay writer he had been thinking like a science fiction author, Isaac Asimov might have won the 1976 Hugo. It was not forgotton, that story has been reprinted zillions of times and indeed is still in print.Īsimov included "Neutron Star" in his anthology. And made first ballot for the 1967 Nebula award. Which won the 1967 Hugo award for best short story. But Niven wrote a science fiction story instead, the eponymous " Neutron Star". This was read by a few people but then more or less forgotten.Īpparently Larry Niven read the same news. Being a science popularizer as well as a science fiction author, he was inspired to write a science essay about neutron stars. Isaac Asimov, in one of the anthologies he edited, mentioned reading some astronomical news back in the early 1960s about neutron stars.
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