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Starships! Death Rays! Superheroes! Mutants! Monsters! Multiverse! An astrophysicist (and science fiction fan) explores the scientific possibility of superhero superpowers, stories of time travel, ...
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  • 13 October 2026
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Starships! Death Rays! Superheroes! Mutants! Monsters! Multiverse! An astrophysicist (and science fiction fan) explores the scientific possibility of superhero superpowers, stories of time travel, the supernatural, bigfoot, ghosts, vampires, and much more!

Have you ever wondered whether we might someday teleport from place to place with transporters like those shown in Star Trek? Or pondered the existence of ghosts and the possibility of alien life visiting the Earth? Or debated whether being bitten by a radioactive spider might turn you into a superhero? From black holes to sentient robots to werewolves, astrophysicist Charles Liu investigates the real science of the supernatural, science fiction stories, mythology, folklore, fairy tales, and other wild, crazy, mysterious, spooky, fantastical, and sometimes real, sometimes not phenomena! Looking through a scientific lens, (Super) Natural Science: The Real Science of Superheroes, Mythic Creatures, and the (Sci-Fi) Universe probes the scientific foundations and frontiers of all things fantastic, from …

  • Alien life and artificial intelligence;
  • The Big Bang, Bigfoot and black holes;
  • Cyborgs, dark matter, and death rays;
  • The end of time, event horizons, and extra dimensions;
  • Faster-than-light travel, genetic modification, and ghosts;
  • Gravitational waves, hypernovas, insect invasions, and Jurassic Park;
  • Kaiju, King Kong, leptons, magic, and mutants;
  • Nucleosynthesis, Planck time, and quantum teleportation;
  • Robots, super-senses, super-serums, and super-strength;
  • Telepathy, teleportation, and time travel;
  • Vampires, warp drive, and werewolves;
  • X-ray vision, Yellowstone supervolcanoes, and Yetis;
  • Zero-point energy and zombies;
  • And so much more!

    Science and the supernatural aren’t mutually exclusive—and science is often stranger than fiction! (Super) Natural Science shows how science can be used to explain all sorts of strange, wondrous and unusual phenomena!

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    Price: $59.95
    Pages: 300
    Publisher: Visible Ink Press
    Imprint: Visible Ink Press
    Publication Date: 13 October 2026
    Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
    ISBN: 9781578598908
    Format: Hardcover
    BISACs: SCIENCE / Reference, Science: general issues, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy, SCIENCE / General, Philosophy of science, Film history, theory or criticism
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    About the Author
    Acknowledgments
    Preface
    Introduction – Super is Natural

    Part I – Super Science
    1. Warp Drive
    2. Time Travel
    3. Death Rays
    4. Teleportation
    5. Vacuum Energy

    Part II – Super Powers
    6. Super-strength
    7. Telekinesis
    8. Super-senses
    9. Telepathy and Clairvoyance
    10. Magic

    Part III – Super Humans
    11. Mutants
    12. Genetic Modification
    13. Super-serums
    14. Cybernetics
    15. Artificial intelligence

    Part IV – Super Nonhumans
    16. Zombies
    17. Ghosts
    18. Vampires
    19. Werewolves
    20. Bigfoot

    Part V – Super Cosmic
    21. Other Worlds
    22. Aliens: The Viral Kind
    23. Aliens: The E.T. Kind
    24. Aliens: The Godzilla Kind
    25. Other Universes

    Bibliography
    Index