The Scientist/Engineer/Inventor Hero in Science Fiction
Explore the greatest science fiction books featuring scientist, engineer, and inventor heroes. Discover thrilling tales of innovation, discovery, and genius protagonists shaping the future.
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The Compleat McAndrew
by Charles Sheffield
Presenting the space adventures of Arthur Morton McAndrew, space-time expert and scientist extraordinaire, and his long-suffering companion, spaceship skipper Jeanie Roker. Jeanie first met McAndrew on a routine run to Titan and quickly learned he was a genius of the caliber of Newton or Einstein. When McAndrew invented a space drive that let frail humans survive hundreds of gravities of acceleration, he disappeared while testing it, and Jeanie had to find him, using a trail of cryptic messages he had left behind. That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, in spite of the gray hairs that Jeanie began accumulating as a result of McAndrew's impractical nature and his talent for getting himself into trouble with much more practical villains, such as... A mass-murderer of several million people A highly-placed government official whose life McAndrew saved, but in an embarrassing way, and who consequently wants to kill both him and Jeanie The ruler of a slower-than-light spaceship that left Earth a long time ago, giving it time to develop some very strange customs by the time McAndrew and Jeanie visited it. And there are still more adventures of this spacegoing odd couple inThe Compleat McAndrew. Publisher's Note:Part of this book was previously published asOne Man's Universe.
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The Cunningham Equations
by G. C. Edmondson
"Blaise Cunningham was a Nobel-Prize winner, the world's foremost expert in artificial intelligence and one of the best computer programmers alive. He was also a falling-down drunk whose only friends were an intelligent computer, a good woman, a bad scientist, and a frisky puppy named Dobie. But Cunningham had plenty of enemies, including a couple of would-be dognappers. They wanted Dobie, and Cunningham didn't know why. He was afraid they'd kill the puppy, and he couldn't allow that. Even a drunk has to have some principles. It was a while before Cunningham realized that he was just a pawn in a game where science was warring for men's souls and thousands of lives had already been sacrificed!"--Page 4 of cover
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On Top of the World
by Victor Appleton
When Tom heads to Mount Everest to test out his latest invention, he has difficulty focusing because of a nasty bunch of hunters who want to capture a yeti at any cost, while Tom vows to protect the environment and any species in it.
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Antigrav Unlimited
by Duncan Long
Phil Hunter, inventor of a remarkable antigravity rod that controls the effect of gravity, faces the deadly hostility of post-nuclear conglomerates and takes himself, his invention, and one hundred clones to the moon where he plans his counter-attack
