Hi, All,

   I seek s/f book recommendations for novels that teach science.

   For example, I'm interested in how it would feel to be inside a rotating habitat -- coriolis effect, dropped objects seeming to veer off to anti-spinward, nausea, etc.  My kids have watched plenty of Babylon5 with me.  My oldest son and I read Clarke's "Islands in the Sky" and Steele's "Orbital Decay" together last summer.  I remember long ago reading Heinlein's and Harry Harrison's rotating generation ship novels long ago.  And the kids' characters spend a lot of time on a lab ship that can rotate -- as in "Death Station", if I recall the adventure name correctly.

   Any other pertinent novels to recommend?

   And my nebula adventure will have an introduction to astronomy.  I remember, in the first Man-Kzin Wars book, Poul Anderson has Kzinti getting fuel by skimming a sun! -- but it seemed to make sense when I read it, ages ago.  There is a berserker short story that takes place in orbit around a black hole.  In Forever War, they travel by black hole, though I don't remember any details about being near a black hole.  Any pertinent novels come to mind?

   And let me leave this wide open:  Any s/f novel at all that had a cool science lesson.  If I can find your recommendations at the public library, then they'll end up where my oldest son can find them.

   Thank you all again for your willingness to offer up suggestions.

   Sincerely,

Asher

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