against bad science in disaster movies. Unfortunately scientists can't (usually) sue for misrepresentation of themselves or their work, or of scientific principles. So we get Really Bad Science in Hollywood flicks. MSNBC.com has examples of some of them in this slideshow. For more bad science in Hollywood films, and for when Tinseltown gets it right, check out some of these books.
Athena Andreadis, To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek (Random House, 1998).
Robert DeSalle and David Lindley, The Science of Jurassic Park, or How to Build a Dinosaur (Basic Books, 1997).
Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg, The Computers of Star Trek (Wiley, 1999).
Lois H. Gresh, The Science of James Bond (Wiley, 2006).
Lois H. Gresh, The Science of Stephen King (Wiley, 2007).
Lois H. Gresh, The Science of Superheroes (Wiley, 2003).
Lois H. Gresh, The Science of Supervillains (Wiley, 2004). Gresh has written a number of other pop culture and science guides.
Susan Jenkins, The Biology of Star Trek (HarperCollins, 1999). Updated 2000.
Lawrence M. Krauss, Beyond Star Trek (Diane Publishing Company, 2000).
Lawrence M. Krauss, The Physics of Star Trek (Perseus Publishing, 2007).
See also a previous post on vampirism in academia, a bibliography on Buffy, and a post on the science of vampires in vampire movies.
Also of interest:
Judith Barad and Ed Robertson, The Ethics of Star Trek (HarperCollins, 2001).
Richard Hanley, The Metaphysics of Star Trek (HarperCollins, 1997).