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Fraknoi, Andrew – Mercury, 1987
Contains a partially annotated, nontechnical bibliography of recent materials about supernovae, including some about the discovery of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Includes citations of general books and articles about supernovae, articles about Supernova 1987A, and a few science fiction stories using supernovae. (TW)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Astronomy, Periodicals, Reading Materials

Neustadter, Roger – Youth and Society, 1989
Traces the changes in the depiction of childhood in science fiction films from the 1950s to the present decade. Argues that the contemporary science fiction representation of the sentimental child is a cultural idealization that opposes the social reality of the vanishing child. (FMW)
Descriptors: Characterization, Child Role, Children, Cultural Images

Fraknoi, Andrew – Mercury, 1990
This resource list contains stories on the following topics: antimatter, asteroids, astronomers, black holes, comets, cosmology, jupiter, life elsewhere, mars, mercury, meteors, the moon, particle physics, pluto, quantum mechanics, quasars and active galaxies, relativity, saturn, stars, the sun, supernovae and neutron stars, time travel, uranus,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Bibliographies, College Science, Earth Science