There's some fine science-type literature out there. nerdling is currently enamoured with:


Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions,Timequake, The Sirens of Titan
Italo Calvino: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Cosmicomics
Richard Feynman: Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!
Eve Curie: Madame Curie
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
E. E. Cummings: A Selection of Poems*
Douglas Adams: The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Arundhati Roy: The Cost of Living
Oliver Sacks: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
Tom Stoppard: Rozencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Primo Levi: The Periodic Table
Margaret Wertheim: Pythagoras' Trousers
Freeman Dyson: Infinite in All Directions
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Don Marquis: Archy and Mehitabel†
Dr Seuss: Oh! The Places You'll Go!
Oliver Sacks: Uncle Tungsten
Michihiko Hachiya: Hiroshima Diary
Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland


* not really scientific literature, as a matter of fact he has a healthy contempt for science, but his poems are weird and beautiful enough that we forgive him
† not scientific literature at all, but it does involve an interview between a cockroach and the planet mars at one stage