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The author of Skulls in the Stars is a professor of physics, specializing in optical science, at UNC Charlotte. The blog covers topics in physics and optics, the history of science, classic pulp fantasy and horror fiction, and the surprising intersections between these areas. -
Author Archives: skullsinthestars
Beyond the Spectrum, by Arthur Leo Zagat
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Yet another post of invisibility fiction, driven by all the stories I found while researching my invisibility book! Here we have a curious case: an invisibility story written by a lawyer-turned-author, Arthur Leo…
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The Invisible Robinhood, by Eando Binder
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Okay, this story seemed at first to be a pretty silly and stupid invisibility tale, but it leads down a fascinating historical rabbit hole. So follow along… The setting: the city, late at…
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Beyond Power of Man, by Paul Ernst
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Continuing my run of stories of invisibility to celebrate finishing the draft of my book on the history and physics of invisibility! I probably should’ve waited to do this until my book is…
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“Invisibility” reviewed by The New York Times!
Just wanted to post a quick note that my book on Invisibility now has a New York Times book review! It seems… not bad? 🙂 A short sample of the review: Gbur, a professor of physics and optical science at … Continue reading
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Terrors Unseen, by Harl Vincent
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Yet another invisibility story! So many invisibility stories. So, in the list of stories we’ve looked at so far, we’ve seen invisible people, invisible monsters, invisible buildings, invisible cars, invisible dogs, and invisible…
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A hare-y puzzle solved!
One of the really neat things about diving deep into a scientific problem is that you start to spot surprising things in images or videos that nobody else would see! My book on Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics got me … Continue reading
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The Invisible Master, by Edmond Hamilton
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I keep finding new invisibility stories! Will I ever come to an end? Stay tuned! It is pretty clear at this point that stories about invisibility were a huge business in the early…
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The Little Man Who Wasn’t All There, by Robert Bloch
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More invisibility! More invisibility fiction for the gods of invisibility fiction! Or something. Again, blogging about all the invisibility stories I’ve been coming across while finishing my book on invisibility physics. It seems…
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War with the Gizmos, by Murray Leinster
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Yet another post about invisibility in fiction! So many stories I couldn’t mention in my upcoming book on the physics of invisibility, so you get to hear about the stories here. Time to…
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The Cave of Horror, by Captain S.P. Meek
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Yet another post about invisibility in fiction! Will I ever run out of these? I feel like I need to write another book just about invisibility fiction. So in my last post, I…
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