Fire, ice, and physics : the science of Game of thrones / Rebecca C. Thompson ; foreword by Sean Carroll.
Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science-fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin's fantastical world accept it all as part of the magic. A trained scientist, watching the fake sci...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Sean Carroll
- Introduction
- Winter is coming--or is it? Seasons in Westeros
- And now my watch begins : the science of an ice wall
- North of the wall : how to survive in the cold
- White walkers, zombies, parasites, and statistics
- Regular steel, made in Pittsburgh
- Valyrian steel, made in Damascus
- Dragon biology : bats, but with fire
- How to kill a white walker : the physics of dragonglass
- Harrenhall : can fire melt stone? take down a wall?
- The battle of the Blackwater : the science of wildfire
- Houses Targaryen and Lannister : the genetics of a family tree with few branches
- We do not sow : the science of the sea
- The king's justice : the biology of a gruesome death
- Epilogue.