17 must-read nonfiction books like The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel by Erin Macdonald

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The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel

By: Erin Macdonald

3.93

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Science fiction allows listeners to go places they can only dream of seeing—other worlds, distant s…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel by Erin Macdonald , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. The Story of Human Language

By: None

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Audiobook

"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more

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2. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel

By: Erin Macdonald

3.93

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Science fiction allows listeners to go places they can only dream of seeing—other worlds, distant s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Macdonald's The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel book and Erin Macdonald's The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel

  • audiobook
  • science
  • time travel
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • space
  • astronomy
  • education
  • physics
  • technology
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4. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.08

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.14

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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6. Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses

By: Athena Aktipis

3.52

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

You watch a horror movie or TV series and think, "Zombies don’t really exist". But when you conside… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
  • audiobook
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7. Alone with the Stars

By: David R. Gillham

3.27

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time 2 hours 10 minutes In the summer of 1937, Amelia Earhart is the most famous woman… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs

By: Ben Garrod

3.93

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 2 hours and 42 minutes Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. History of Bourbon

By: Ken Albala

3.77

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

3 hours and 55 minutes Is bourbon the quintessential American liquor? Bourbon is not just alcoho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
  • audiobook
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10. Declutter Your Home and Simplify Your Life

By: Sophie Largen

3.31

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Messengers

By: Lindsay Joelle

3.31

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

A mysterious plague ushers in an intergalactic war that ravages the galaxy for decades. A soldier a… read more

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  • space
  • audiobook
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12. Witchcraft in the Western Tradition

By: Jennifer McNabb

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

10 lectures on European and American witchcraft trials and history. 5 hours and 11 minutes Fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He who is not the right faith of God is not of God, but of him in whom he believes, that is the Devil. -Canon Episcopi"

-Jennifer McNabb, Witchcraft in the Western Tradition

"He who is not the right faith of God is not of God, but of him in whom he believes, that is the Devil." -Canon Episcopi"

-Jennifer McNabb, Witchcraft in the Western Tradition

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13. Second Skin

By: Christian White

3.50

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 4 hours and 28 minutes Stan Weir is mourning a tragic loss when he meets a mys… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. The World of J.R.R. Tolkien

By: Dimitra Fimi

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Though there has been some contention over the title, J.R.R. Tolkien is regarded by many as the fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of How Science Shapes Science Fiction by Charles L. Adler

15. How Science Shapes Science Fiction

By: Charles L. Adler

4.20

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Whether science fiction is exploring current realities, extrapolating from the present to create im… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • physics
  • science
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16. American Monsters

By: Adam Jortner

3.99

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

4 hours and 55 minutes Cackling witches in Puritan communities calling forth Satan. Sea serpents… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Space Race

By: Colin Brake

3.84

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

About This Audible Original The 1960s space race captured our imaginations and our dreams. Today’s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • astronomy
  • space
  • technology
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18. The History of Psychedelics

By: Erkia Dyck

3.53

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Mescaline, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms. There’s been a lot of discussion in the medical world lat… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. How to Build Meaningful Relationships through Conversations

By: Carol Ann Lloyd

3.47

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

We have conversations every day, but how many of those can be considered effective? The right conve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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20. How Horror Works in Books and Film

By: Shannon Scott

3.75

Format: 4 pages, Audiobook

Why are we scared of ghosts, zombies, vampires, demons, and monsters, when we know they are not rea… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Scott's How Horror Works in Books and Film book and Erin Macdonald's The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The History of the Superhero

By: Lan Dong

3.29

Format: None pages, Audiobook

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook

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Michael Pollan

3.72

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Erin Macdonald

3.93

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Dorsey Armstrong

4.08

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.16

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John McWhorter

3.99

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Maureen Corrigan

4.18

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