Arts: Movies and Books: Mad Science webs+t presents 6 scientists on sci-fi

I was del+ted with this sortie into the crossover between science professionals and, despite the naysayers at the beginning, their colleagues of other views (attitudes?) toward science fiction in movies and books.

Among the artistic works c+ted are:

2001 for it's Hal 9000 space vehicle.
Stealth 's EDI
Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, Dune prequel trilogy re Butlerian jihad
TV, movies, books portrayal of nanotechnology devices
Cyril Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons"
Frank Herbert's novel (1954) & David Lynch's movie (1989) Dune
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale -- horrible as a flick too
David Brin and Gregory Benford's Heart of the Comet
Actor Arnold Schwarzennegger's Terminator -- I loved his TotalRecall
Not its fantasy trees, etc, but it's more science-true elements, Avatar
Firefly apparently a movie and a TV series as well
Sir Isaac Asimov's Robot series

I'd want to add the works of George MacDonald (Lilith), JRR Tolkien (Lord the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit>, etc), and CS Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. These last 3 are by celebrated Christian literati.

Verisimilitude -- look up the word if you don't know it.

Check out the webs+t, and come up with your own. But no need to stick to the science in sci-fi works, just an artistically magical power that moves you to suspend your disbelief and your scientism, so that the artist enables you to go with the imaginal world where a very personal "science" with all its flaws captures your attention and whisks you off to Elsewhere. Send me your comment, woud love to post it here.

-- Owlie Scowlie