Hi, All,

   I seek s/f book recommendations for novels that teach science.

   For example, I'm interested in how it would feel to be inside a rotating habitat -- coriolis effect, dropped objects seeming to veer off to anti-spinward, nausea, etc.  My kids have watched plenty of Babylon5 with me.  My oldest son and I read Clarke's "Islands in the Sky" and Steele's "Orbital Decay" together last summer.  I remember long ago reading Heinlein's and Harry Harrison's rotating generation ship novels long ago.  And the kids' characters spend a lot of time on a lab ship that can rotate -- as in "Death Station", if I recall the adventure name correctly.

   Any other pertinent novels to recommend?

   And my nebula adventure will have an introduction to astronomy.  I remember, in the first Man-Kzin Wars book, Poul Anderson has Kzinti getting fuel by skimming a sun! -- but it seemed to make sense when I read it, ages ago.  There is a berserker short story that takes place in orbit around a black hole.  In Forever War, they travel by black hole, though I don't remember any details about being near a black hole.  Any pertinent novels come to mind?

   And let me leave this wide open:  Any s/f novel at all that had a cool science lesson.  If I can find your recommendations at the public library, then they'll end up where my oldest son can find them.

   Thank you all again for your willingness to offer up suggestions.